Folk Art Chicken

This is a folk Art Chicken as described in the Carving Magazine in their anniversary issue. The design came from Dave Disselbrett's article, but I made some minor changes to his design. I didn't like the way that the tail was attached as a separate piece, nor it's shape, so I incorporated the tail in the base design here. That is a fun part of carving, nothing is set in stone, unless you are carving stone of course. This chicken is a tad smaller, to fit with the size of the basswood I had. As I recall it is 1 ½ x 2 x 7, I think. I could be wrong there. I did like the separate wings although I could not see the details used in the original carving, which left me open to interpret the design any way I wanted. All in all, this was a fun and quick project, about 2 hours for the carving and 2 hours for the painting. I've yet to spray a finish varnish on the bird cause the final coat of black on the shoes was still wet. Any way, here it is.

Enjoy, but be careful of the splinters.