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Bob Law’s Blog: Wood Carving Artworks

Over the past decade, on my travels, I’ve been struck by how elaborate, useful, and eye-catching many benches, outdoor sculptures, and presumably commissioned objects of art have become in recent years.

If you work in the medium of pavement or beach art you know with the next high tide or heavy downpour your creation is liable to disappear… no matter how time consuming, elaborate or complex you make it. With murals or wood art they too will fade or degrade in time but you might possibly get 10 or 20 years out of them before they vanish, get painted over, or fall apart.

Some wood carving examples

Here are some wood carving examples that caught my eye while they were still fresh and pristine.

The Heron Bench

Ornate Bench

Wood Carving Skills

Of course in nature you often get spectacular examples of beauty as well, apparently random, as complex and precise as any artist can achieve…. making you wonder is it just down to the rules of pure mathematics i.e. frost crystals have to conform to certain shapes, flowers and wildlife are the way they are, in all their breathtaking variety due to natural selection…

Natural Artwork. Base of a CherryTree

or is an overall invisible master designer in charge… as large sections of the human population still believe?

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