The remote learning of 2020 has begun, so one of my goals was to document what I'm doing so that my students can have a little insight into the life of a teacher/artist. Somethings will seem meaningful, and some perhaps a little meaningless. This is where I'm at for the moment, and we'll see where this goes.
I've had this idea for a while that I wanted to carve some mushrooms into some tree stumps in my yard. I had seen some of these stump carvings before at different random locations, and they seemed rather creative and organically interesting. The problem is, I don't know how they made these carvings.
Step 1: Get on YouTube and type in stump carving. I found out that most of these mushrooms weren't so much carved by hand, but chainsawed by hand. Well I have a chainsaw, so I suppose I can give it a go.
Step 2: Figure out what kind of mushrooms I want to carve and how detailed I can make them. As a beginner I'd like to keep it simple. But the morel style mushrooms with all the texture look pretty cool, so we'll see if I decide to take on that challenge. On a side note, by wife is a little concerned that my carvings might look a little phallic, so I'll have to make sure whatever I carve doesn't take on a form a might later regret.
Step 3: Start chainsawing my tree. My tree (pictured below) has 3 main trunk sections. So do I make 3 of these things or just just chop them all off and make something shorter? Like with many art projects, well see how things go and then modify the plans as the sculpture progress.
TO BE CONTINUED:
Step 1: Get on YouTube and type in stump carving. I found out that most of these mushrooms weren't so much carved by hand, but chainsawed by hand. Well I have a chainsaw, so I suppose I can give it a go.
Step 2: Figure out what kind of mushrooms I want to carve and how detailed I can make them. As a beginner I'd like to keep it simple. But the morel style mushrooms with all the texture look pretty cool, so we'll see if I decide to take on that challenge. On a side note, by wife is a little concerned that my carvings might look a little phallic, so I'll have to make sure whatever I carve doesn't take on a form a might later regret.
Step 3: Start chainsawing my tree. My tree (pictured below) has 3 main trunk sections. So do I make 3 of these things or just just chop them all off and make something shorter? Like with many art projects, well see how things go and then modify the plans as the sculpture progress.
TO BE CONTINUED: