Thread: More wall carves

More great stuff Rob !
It's very much a matter of personal taste of course when deciding what level of "reality" you wish to go for but I feel that it would help the through the wall carving concept if they were drawn & carved a little more realistically - with say the mans left hand of the lovers in better proportion & the womans' backside carved from thicker stock.
I just feel it is as if the more realistic the carving - the more mentally striking is the impact of the impossible trough the wall series concept.

Rob never fails to delight me with the concepts in his wall carvings.
My imagination doesn't stretch like that, if it ever did.
In these examples, he's got the luxury of revising individual elements if/when he decides to do so.

I will agree that some parts are just a little out of proportion.
Even taking perspective into account, the man's left hand is too far forward (in size).

Thank you gentlemen and I totally agree, the proportions are way out of whack on the lovers male, I wasn't going to bother posting it at all but I thought I'd show the design of that one. I carved the hands of the male first then the head, the hands were to big and the more I tried to scale it down it didn't really work then the head came out a bit smaller than I'd planed, I may carve the whole male side again using a different piece of wood but I have other ideas I want to try first, all a learning curve I guess and the first time I've attempted oak.

Any potential proportion problems are best ironed out at the drawing stage , I would think it would be very difficult to go back to this carving & do the parts again without going back to paper (or digital) with your original plan to scale off .
Cheers mike

Just Beautiful!

Reaching through.......walking through... different dimensions.

Wow! Love them.

Great job on the carvings. I would also like to say good on you for posting the couples gives us non-carvers an idea of what it means to carve.