Tag Archives: carving

And speaking about rock carving and painting, and crack squirrels… and love…

Posted on July 22, 2022 by pouringmyartout

I asked my wife if we could order pizza, and then asked her to tell the pizza people to put extra little tables… those things that keep the box lid off your cheese… in the box. And she didn’t even … Continue reading →

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You can be all-art-side-of-the brain and have crack squirrels living in your head, or you can have a life… but you can’t have it both ways…

Posted on July 21, 2022 by pouringmyartout

Because you see a stupid rock… And you remember that rotary engraving/carving tool you got for Christmas… And you think, yeah, I know, I have a million other art projects I am working on… But it would be fun to … Continue reading →

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Because what I really needed was another type of art project to get sucked into…

Posted on July 3, 2022 by pouringmyartout

It started off harmlessly enough. For Christmas, I asked for this cool little engraver pen I kept seeing ads for, and some paint pens. I was going to use them on my wood carving stuff that I already do. And … Continue reading →

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If you look at these three side-by-side pictures of different angles of my latest wood-carving experiment, you could be forgiven if you find yourself wondering; “and you call yourself an artist?”

Posted on June 17, 2022 by pouringmyartout

I do, and the reason that I do is that I know, somehow, that I am going to turn that hot mess into a fantastic vine-covered work of art. And, no, I don’t know how I will do that. The … Continue reading →

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This week in my life… fone fotos… part 2…

Posted on April 18, 2022 by pouringmyartout

No, I didn’t mount a dog head on my wall, but we will get to that later. I made a new friend. She hangs out with the guys at the car shop down the street where I had to get … Continue reading →

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This week in my life… fone fotos… part 1…

Posted on April 15, 2022 by pouringmyartout

I made a bear! My younger daughter Mollie got me a sandstone carving kit for Christmas. I finally got around to doing it. You get a sandstone bear just cut in the outline. And a file, some little pieces of … Continue reading →

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Looking back: A blog retrospective; Part 32- My Art… part 8…

Posted on October 1, 2021 by pouringmyartout

A Tin Tin comic I started way back in the 70’s and never finished, some much more recent tikis, one of my first Photoshop experiments when I taught myself to add my face to military history images, a study I … Continue reading →

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Looking back: A blog retrospective; Part 19- My art… part 2…

Posted on June 1, 2021 by pouringmyartout
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Another art project begins… part 2…

Posted on April 12, 2021 by pouringmyartout

Well, I told you I would keep you posted on that post I am carving in a vine pattern, by posting posts about the post, so here is another post about the post that I am posting. This time I … Continue reading →

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A new tiki is born… part 3…

Posted on March 9, 2018 by pouringmyartout

I have done some more work on the mouth. After the bark lips started to fall off, I had to flatten the remainder out, so I had to make the whole face a little deeper in the wood. I am … Continue reading →

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