Line Carving

I got a wood carving kit for Christmas and attempted my first beginner-level project, a line carving. For a line carving you basically just draw a picture on wood and then carve the outline. It's pretty simple, no three-dimensional stuff, but it got me familiar with some of the tools.

I took a scrap piece of wood I had laying around and went to work on a scene of musk oxen in the arctic tundra. Musk oxen are pretty rad dudes as they're a lot like bison, but they live in the tundra and get snow on them.

I obviously haven't added color yet, so the image is sort of hard to make out, but there is a way to get color in the grooves, so I'll be figuring out how to do that next.

Bison Painting

I'm not sure if I'm finished with this yet, but I remembered I'm going to be internetless for the next two weeks or so starting tomorrow, so I figured I had better post it now. Anyway, I went to the Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago this past weekend and was disappointed to find a lack of bison art (though I was later corrected). I decided to make my own bison painting using a random piece of wood and the paint I had laying around the apartment. It's very simple and looks like a child drew it, but I think I'm ok with that. I used a bison cookie cutter I had as a stencil for the bison.

And that is a box it's sitting on. Currently in packing mode as I prepare to move to Detroit. So long, Chicago.