Santas Already

Here are two Santa's I carved during a woodcarving retreat. These were done from Basswood eggs. The larger one took about 2 hours to finish, giving me an hour to carve the next one. After I got home I textured the smaller of the Santas beard, mustache and hat brim using a small v-tool. The eyes were each painted, after which I coated them with BLO and painted them with acrylic washes until I got the tone I wanted. One of these will go to my auction at work and the other will stay home.


Enjoy, and be careful of the splinters.