2-25-2012-heads up folks

     today i'm going to visit all the big heads i have done. will try and make this a complete set of easter island style heads i have done . i love to carve the big heads as i like watching the face come jumping out of the wood at me . i try to keep them primal ,yet not exact copies of moai statues in this link.        http://www.flickr.com/photos/28495615@N02/6242241250

the guy i sold him to said there was a resemblance between him and the statue. the statue above was in trade for some aged pine he had on his property. he brought his dad down and the 2 of them sat and watched me carve out the bulk of the carving. we had a great time visiting. 

      

         the top photo  is another i did in same style minus the mohawk. i believe this was a black walnut log i carved this one out of and that  is its natural color and in fact had to leave in sun for awhile to bleach the face out because he was so dark. the one in the picture below is one i had just finished carving but had not yet finished staining and finishing the head. the thiird picture is a finished version of the second. and the last one in the above is my mr. natural man.

        although he is not the primal style , this is a jesus head  i was carving , he was still a big head , standing at three  feet tall. the above carving was carved in the likeness of christ and i feel he resembles him. at the time i placed a crown of rose bushes on his head. and has since fell off. he is also the icon i use on a lot of my stuff on the internet. 

        and in the last photo is a pic of same sculpture showing some of the close up carving detail i employed while carving this statue.

        above is the last but hopefully not the last of my head sculptures as i love to do them . just might have to do smaller work. trying to but finding it harder to get chainsaw to cut as i want. wait a minute ,always had the same problem . oh well that's just the way life goes sometime.