BEER TAP HANDLE: Dec. '10
A First ever Attempt. Watch my progress...
This is a cool piece of wood. Look its free too!
Bam! Hand sawed it to an appropriate length and started carving off the layers.
Starting to take shape. Carving is extremely new to me. It take a lot of mental planning as your creating depth and fluidity to a 3-dimensional object. My biggest goal was well, not to make it look inappropriate ;) But my other main goal was to just follow the natural curves I was seeing in the branch and let it create itself.
This is the point where I gouged my thumb out with the carving tool so deep that I almost didn't make it to the sink, before the blood started dripping all over the floor. Good times. A little hydrogen peroxide & a band aid later, and we've got some detail work.
Sanded smooth, I added a detail paint job to one of the stripes in the handle. I put a varnish over the stripe, to protect it before I continued painting.
Stained and varnished, here is the finished product.
HALLOWEEN 2010
A First ever Attempt. Watch my progress...
This is a cool piece of wood. Look its free too!
Bam! Hand sawed it to an appropriate length and started carving off the layers.
Starting to take shape. Carving is extremely new to me. It take a lot of mental planning as your creating depth and fluidity to a 3-dimensional object. My biggest goal was well, not to make it look inappropriate ;) But my other main goal was to just follow the natural curves I was seeing in the branch and let it create itself. 
This is the point where I gouged my thumb out with the carving tool so deep that I almost didn't make it to the sink, before the blood started dripping all over the floor. Good times. A little hydrogen peroxide & a band aid later, and we've got some detail work. 
Sanded smooth, I added a detail paint job to one of the stripes in the handle. I put a varnish over the stripe, to protect it before I continued painting.
Stained and varnished, here is the finished product. 
HALLOWEEN 2010
As a first annual, a coworker, put on a haunted house in the IFCC building that Ethos has just inherited. He built the maze from scratch adding fog machines and fake boiling cauldrens while the building provided its own personal creaks and hollowy eeriness. I added some artwork that hung in the hallways and in corners glowing and flickering by minute light sorcers helping to create an organic environment right before zombies jumped out playing crazy electric guitar riffs or a dead clarinet player squealed with those past. Check out some of my windows:
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