Well, I wasn't sure I'd get Day Eight completed with the Family Christmas Party and all! So I started it before the get together and put on the finishing touches once we got back home. The party was great, 40 members showed up, enjoyed all the good food and had grand fun with the gift exchange game!
Today I picked out another Chinaberry Parasite Wood Carving. This is one of a fish, I like these carvings, they intrigue me how the carver leaves so much of the natural part of the growth and works the subject into the shape of the piece. They are each unique and individual because each piece of parasite wood is one of a kind.
FYI: Chinaberry parasite wood carvings come from a parasitic plant, a mushroom-like growth that imbeds itself into the bark of a Chinaberry tree and gets its nourishment from the tree's sap. These parasite growths are so hard and dense that they don't decay when the tree is dead and rots away, leaving these parasite growths to be picked up and carved into beautiful objects by talented artists.
Today I picked out another Chinaberry Parasite Wood Carving. This is one of a fish, I like these carvings, they intrigue me how the carver leaves so much of the natural part of the growth and works the subject into the shape of the piece. They are each unique and individual because each piece of parasite wood is one of a kind.
FYI: Chinaberry parasite wood carvings come from a parasitic plant, a mushroom-like growth that imbeds itself into the bark of a Chinaberry tree and gets its nourishment from the tree's sap. These parasite growths are so hard and dense that they don't decay when the tree is dead and rots away, leaving these parasite growths to be picked up and carved into beautiful objects by talented artists.
"Day Eight Ink Sketch"
If you like to know more about the challenge, just click on this link Brenda Swenson's 75 Day Sketch Challenge.
Happy Day!
Karen Anne
