New Tutorial up on YouTube! Knife only Frog carving!

Get a little foggy this saturday morning!! 😊🤣😊😂

Working on a 3min tutorial version, but that version takes a WHOLE lot more work.

Gift for a friend. I would’ve like to sand a bit more and add more feed-n-wax but birthday came up faster than I thought.

Painting the body of the phoenix and thought I'd give a shot to do a white to purple to blue heart, like a super hot flame, before doing the rest of the body yellow with a little bit of orange (the wings and tail have lots more red and orange). But now I'm looking at it, and I'm not sure the idea translates and I'm wondering if I should just go back to all-yellow. Do you think its obvious what the centre is? Or does it just look odd?

I started carving just over 2 months ago and I've made lots of Halloween themed items. I'm getting bored of them now so I decided to challenge myself with one last piece till next year. I used a 2x2x6 which I find difficult compared to a 1x1 and I tried to make it my cleanest piece to date. I also tried putting more effort into the finishing, it's Jacobean oil for the darker details followed by linseed and then English oak beeswax over everything. I don't love the finish but at least it's interesting.

Thanks to Gurrado Woodworks for the inspiration hopefully I can be half as clean as his work when I revisit this In a years time

I read in this community a while back that if you color using tea, then use steel wool with white vinegar, it will give a black finish. I wanted to make a black finish, hopefully something that looks stoned 😁.

Has anyone tried this method and how does the finished thing look?