{"id":7022,"date":"2022-01-10T20:34:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stichler.co.uk\/?p=7022"},"modified":"2022-01-10T20:34:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:34:27","slug":"a-green-man-menagerie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/01\/10\/a-green-man-menagerie\/","title":{"rendered":"A Green Man Menagerie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There’s nothing nicer than customers having interesting ideas for their tree carvings ~ the quirkier the better ~ and this one certainly fell into the “unusual” category: a Green Man (a good start), with a squirrel, a….fish…..and…..a lizard(?!). I must admit, the fish and the lizard threw me slightly, and I tried to persuade the customers that some more suitable woodland creatures would be more befitting; credit to them though, they stuck to their guns ~ the chosen wildlife had a strong personal meaning to the family, which I always like…I just had to try and link them together in a carving! I think the final result shows they were right to insist, as the sculpture works well with plenty of interest and character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As usual with a Green Man, the nose is first to appear, and lots of wood is chopped away over the face area; then the features ~ mouth, eyes, cheeks ~ make their appearance, leaving plenty of wood to carve in the leaves where required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next area took some thought ~ I’d planned to have the squirrel climbing down the tree, utilising a couple of large lumps and bumps in the wood, but after roughing out the squirrel’s head a large patch of dark brown pithy rot appeared ~ right in the middle of his forehead, and obviously not ideal. After a rethink I positioned the squirrel as though he was peeping out of a hole, with his tail curling out of another hole just above; this turned out to be a happy accident, as it gave the entire sculpture a bit of a story, with some humour and interest thrown in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There’s nothing nicer than customers having interesting ideas for their tree carvings ~ the quirkier the better ~ and this one certainly fell into the “unusual” category: a Green Man (a good start), with a squirrel, a….fish…..and…..a lizard(?!). I must admit, the fish and the lizard threw me slightly, and I tried to persuade the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carving-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7060,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022\/revisions\/7060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}