My Most Successful Wall Art Sculpture

The shape of the moon, a fallen tree holding a relic, and a curious fox captured by its beauty. That is what I'm going to try to create in this video. So I wanted to capture the posture of the fox in the exact moment it discovered the object in the tree. And even though I do not write a deep story in words about my work, I like to try to express that through the design itself. I quickly want to welcome you to one of my videos, and thank you for checking it out. I get a lot of joy from creating stuff, and you who watches gives me a lot of motivation to try to create hopefully something interesting and new that has not been seen before. So thanks again for pushing me towards that. Here are some designs I have made for the future. I recently bought a planer which allows me to make larger sculptures, so maybe one of these concepts will be the subject of my next video. So change of plans. I was going to make this a sculpture that was freestanding, but now I'm going to make it a wall art piece. And the reason is that this branch will look a little bit flat I think, if you have it like a standing sculpture, but that's going to look better up on a wall, I think. So that's the reason. I decided to start by carving the moon shape. I never really had in mind for it to be a moon, but the shape of one just appeared when I sketched, and soon the camera will go black. Here's the reason. One of my machines short-circuited, and there was a big light show from the motor. I guess it is dead, but I have used it a lot for 7 years, so all in all it has been a good machine. I usually check out the colors on the wood before deciding where to put the design onto it, but I forgot for this project, and the colors were so nice that I decided to skip the swirly shape on the moon. So now I have roughed out the branch, and I really tried to put life into every single piece of it. And you can see it's quite un-sturdy, it's wiggling quite a lot when I do this. So the question now is, what do I do next? And one thing that is really important for this sculpture to be successful is to have the fox look exactly at the pearl. And with that in mind, I think maybe it's best to carve the fox out first, because it's a lot easier to change the orientation of the pearl than the fox, I think. That means I think it's time to go back to the drawing board and figure out how the fox is really gonna look. When walking around the sculpture, there will be a risk of breaking off the large branch holding the pearl. That is why I decided it would be best to finish the rest of the sculpture, before making the branches thinner and more fragile. Time to make the socket for the pearl. I will turn it into a ball shape first, and then try to freehand its final appearance. I suddenly got an idea, since I want the hole for the pearl to be pretty round, why not try to carefully carve it with one of my large round shaped bits. Time to carve the branch. I will keep it quick, but one thing I want to say is that I can easily forget that I'm working in a three dimensional space when I make a wall art piece, so for the branch I really tried to use the whole array of curves I could to give it a lifelike appearance. I had to stop to admire the sculpture a bit. Wait a minute! What? What is that? That is not of my making! I never make mistakes! Well, I guess I did this time, from earlier in the video, when I cut the design out on the bandsaw. I must have been a bit too aggressive. Time to make the pearl. I have been looking a lot forward to it, and I have made an unwritten rule for myself to only use one solid piece of wood for my sculptures, but I think it is time to challenge this mindset. Beep. Well, so I did a bit of a mistake. I started my next project before finishing this one, and that made me delete all the footage of the oiling process. But hurdles like this does happen all the time, and it doesn't get to me. It gets to me a little bit. But anyway, this project is finished, I'm very proud of how it ended up looking, and as always, thank you so much to my patrons for the support, and thank you for watching the video. Now let's wrap this up and show you the final result.