Walters Carving

I haven't said much about this carving thus far.  I've had this idea for about a year.  I've been looking at different illustrations, read over the nursery rhyme a couple of times, even looked for original carvings.  I gave consideration to various woods and types of carvings.  I really wanted to do this in the round and in Cottonwood bark, but decided instead to go with Basswood for a variety of reasons.   You can see that I am creating an extension where a foot would go into the shoe into a sort of top-of-the-house portion with a roof.  I've gotten shingles done on the one side of the roof so far.  The ladder is to go to a door.  One of the things I haven't worked out is whether I will try to hollow out behind any doors or windows I carve into into it, allowing light through the carving.  I do that on all of my Cottonwood "house" carvings.  Thus far I'm fairly pleased with the direction and have some ideas of the other "whimsical" d...

I decided the best way to approach this project was first by creating the shoe.  Eventually, I would like to create a more whimsical feeling to it by adding windows, doors, and other creative touches in an attempt to bring the nursery rhyme to life (well in a carving).  I wanted to make the shoe as realistic as possible before adding the other touches.