My wife started carving

[RVAE38]

My grandmother was an award winning bird carver for a long time. When I was growing up she carved a ton of stuff. She made me a number of cool things as well. My wife had always been very interested in her birds and talked about learning to do it as well. When my grandmother passed away, my grandfather gave everything to my wife. Tools, supplies, books, magazines, files, drawings etc etc. It was a lot of stuff.

My wife dived right into it and immediately had the knack and talent for it with no prior experience. I would even say she immediately surpassed even my grandmother's capabilities with her very first one!

She carves everything from solid rectangular blocks of wood and makes them from visual photos and does not measure. So far she has done a number of birds over the last 6-10 months and just did her first angel fish. This is my favorite obviously. Eventually, she plans to start an Etsy store or something once our son starts school.

 

[Texas Reefer]

Wow! She is very talented! Let us know when she gets up shop please!

 

[Greybeard]

Awesome.

Having talent in the family is a great thing. Most of the paintings that decorate my home were done either by my mother, or my youngest daughter. They say talent skips a generation... true for me.

Don't know that my daughter has tried sculpture since she got out of high school art class... but paint, mosaic tile, decorative stains, reverse on glass...

For a first try, that fish is truly magnificent. Keep it up!

 

[Jason mack]

WoW !!! Very cool .. my wife is good at driving .... she drives me crazy !!!

 

[RVAE38]

Lol!!!! That your Lamborghini in the pic?

Thanks for the kind words, everyone. I will pass them along.

 

[timrocks311]

very cool! i'd buy that or something like it if i came across it.

 

[DracoKat]

That's amazing! Thank you for sharing the progress photos. A lot of work went into that piece!

 

[Anirban]

Its really nice..:)

 

[Johnike]

Brandon!!! How the heck are ya pal??!!!!
The Mrs. is quite talented!

 

[jolt]

Very nice, and very realistic. I always dislike it when I see fish carvings that do not resemble any actual fish species

 

[Water Dog]

Beautiful work! She should open a R2R store... plenty of customers right here! :D

 

[Retro Reefer]

LOVE IT! That takes some real talent, I tried carving some duck decoys back in the day.. let just say it was a miserable failure :D

 

[RVAE38]

Thanks, everyone! She will be pleased to hear the comments/feedback. She just put the clear coat on last night and it looks even more amazing if you can believe it!

Good morning, John! Things are groovy. Just slowly building the 300zx and the wife has found a fantastic new hobby as you know since I've text you a few of the early photos ;) I hope things are well in your neck of the woods!

 

[RVAE38]

I mounted the fish on the coral after she cleared it.

 

[Tft12]

Wow. That’s awesome.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

My grandmother was an award winning bird carver for a long time. When I was growing up she carved a ton of stuff. She made me a number of cool things as well. My wife had always been very interested in her birds and talked about learning to do it as well. When my grandmother passed away, my grandfather gave everything to my wife. Tools, supplies, books, magazines, files, drawings etc etc. It was a lot of stuff.

My wife dived right into it and immediately had the knack and talent for it with no prior experience. I would even say she immediately surpassed even my grandmother's capabilities with her very first one!

She carves everything from solid rectangular blocks of wood and makes them from visual photos and does not measure. So far she has done a number of birds over the last 6-10 months and just did her first angel fish. This is my favorite obviously. Eventually, she plans to start an Etsy store or something once our son starts school.

When can we place an order? Made in the USA, right? Too cool

 

[Aqua fire/medic]

That’s super cool!

 

[Johnike]

Good morning, John! Things are groovy. Just slowly building the 300zx and the wife has found a fantastic new hobby as you know since I've text you a few of the early photos ;) I hope things are well in your neck of the woods!

Any better, it'd be illegal bud. ;) :)

 

[Sgchick]

Wow!! Very nice!!

 

[Shadowspop]

Sweet!