Walters Carving

Here is a bowl in Mahogany.  I've hand carved the texture around the edge with a v-tool.  I followed that with tint in two tones, a red and blue.  I also tried some burning to set off the edges somewhat and add some other "color" elsewhere.  Below are photos of the entire bowl, plus the bowl before I started "embellishing." 

The carving is done!  Some of the ideas mentioned previously in another blog post were not accomplished mostly because ... well ... things change.  As I started adding detail I didn't want to make it too busy. The carving is 8 separate pieces of Bass wood glued together except the ladder which is not glued.  Each piece is carved separately and then fit together.  I used a small trim router to get the top house part to fit into the shoe top, and then again to fit the roof to the top.  The chimney is turned on a lathe. The Bass wood is sealed and then it is finished in acrylics, shoe cream, and finally sprayed with a spar urethane.  To get a sort-of antiqued finish I paint everything in multiple layers of acrylics, and then using a rotary tool with a scotch-brite sanding wheel i expose different layers of paint, and in some cases go all the way to the wood.  I also like to highlight certain areas where hand carving tools are used. ...