Have to tidy it up now

[Bellor]

Sort of shave the lower part of the lumpy knee and turn it into its shin. The top of the knee was not too bad just took it down a little.

[Christos]

[movay_2008]

The finish is too dark for my liking, but maybe its the pics. Perhaps sand back some of the fore-features like the truck, front legs, and ears to get them lighter and to bring the creature into more relationship with the plain jelutung background.

I did a rather large elephant some years ago and was told when it was finished that its bad luck for the trunk to be down and not up - Asian superstition... who cares! There's good movement in the carving and she/he (?) has a living presence.

What's next?

[Bellor]

My holidays just finished so the carving will slow down a bit. I do a carving then some improvement in the shed then a carving again. Next is an elevated relief carving platform.

Messing around here too https://www.woodworkforums.com/f10/li...5/#post1166580


Russell