Joyce Volmut merely has to look out the windows of her in-home studio for feathered-and-beaked inspirations for the wood bird figurines she will show this weekend at the Kaw Valley Woodcarvers’ 33rd ...
A 94-year-old Bradenton artist sold more than 2,000 of his pieces to an antiques dealer in just one day. Bob Lee has two great loves in this world. The first is his wife of 70 years, Eleanor. They met ...
LITTLE ROCK (AGFC) – John James Audubon worked with birds through his painting two centuries ago. Gerry Chisholm and Sheri Phillips-Chisholm bring birds to reality today with their woodcarving. The ...
"When I'm working on a bird, I have to almost imagine how they're feeling and what they're feeling and why they're doing the ...
Last year's winner in the World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition's Decorative Lifesize Wildfowl category, "Livingstone's Turaco" by Thomas Horn. Ward Museum Last year's winner at the World ...
An 80-year-old man sits in his basement surrounded by stacks of wood and carving tools. The room smells like cedar, and sawdust covers his knees. Bob Clowater is making wooden birds to help people ...
Hunched over a piece of wood, Hank Sprouse whittles away in his basement workshop in Stratford, Connecticut. What looks like a simple carving now, will eventually become a realistic-looking cedar ...
Creek Side Gallery in Leonardtown currently is showing wild bird carvings by local artists Warren and Maxine Brown.Warren first carved as a Cub Scout and, after serving in the U.S. Navy as a ...
CORTEZ -- After artfully carving and painting thousands of realistic wooden birds of all kinds, including decoys and bobbers, 94-year-old Bob Lee has decided enough is enough. Bowing to age, health ...
NAMPA — Ted Smith was at a wedding in 1965 when his brother called him over, his arm outstretched in a fist, wanting to show him something. Inside his palm was a three-inch wooden duck he carved by ...