The City of Orangeville commissioned a few carvers to carve some trees in the park for the Founders festival this past weekend (July7th-9th). My theme of choice was based on Fantasy/Lord of the Rings. I chose to do this collage of a Dragon, Wizard and Castle.
In preparation for the event, as my mentor Fred Zavadil insists I should do for all carvings, I created a scale model of the carving in clay. I would normally just go ahead and carve and see what happens, but this gives me a good Idea of how the carving is going to work out and also speeds up the carving process. Given the limited time frame, it was was well worth the extra effort. The log chosen for me was approximately 9 feet tall and almost 4 feet wide maple. The city cut the stump and transported it to the park for the carving and will be putting it back after it
