Idaho Artistry in Wood Show entries

I have been a very busy beaver trying to finish some pieces for the 2014 Idaho Artistry in Wood Show, to be held at the Boise Hotel and Convention Center, February 22-23. 
    I have completed over a dozen carvings, and still have a few more to finish. Here are a few I have not posted yet.

 This carving is one I created for the section on relief carving. It is the Chinese symbol for "forever".

 This is another Chinese symbol relief carving of the word for peace.

 This one is a simple woodburning of an eagle head.

 I already posted this one, but I wanted to show the changes I made to it. I felt it needed some more "pop" to make it stand out. So in searching for some small stones I could imbed in the carving, I ran across a thing called "howlite". When I looked it up, I found it is a "boro-silicate mineral that can be colored various different colors. So I picked up the one colored like turquoise and shaped (ground and sanded) it down to the right size. It is easy to work with and shape for various different uses. Awesome!

This is another mechanic carving I did for a client. I actually did two of them. The one below had some structural problems that I had to fix. It is amazing what you come up with when you have to be creative. These are loosely based on Steven Prescott's "Blockheads" book. I drew my own pattern and did my own from that.

 So I will have about 14-15 carvings for our show. I still have to do a few more, but those would be duplicates. To meet our club "5-Section Challenge" we had to do one carving from each section. Done! Now I would just like to do more, to showcase to the public and interested observers what can be done in the world of carving.
I hope you enjoy these pictures. Thanks for listening!