Here are a couple pictures of some welcome animal sculptures I made recently.  They make perfect additions to your home.  I have made other animals but these are a select few that I really like and enjoyed making.

Here is another welcome carving I made for a customer of mine.  Its a welcome Eagle.  I think it came out really well.

Large Welcome Bear

Small medium welcome black bear

My latest carving

I started carving raptors in Alaska carving my interpretation of eagles and ospreys. I have leaned a lot about raptors and the anatomy of Birds in recent years carving. I have seen lots of eagles carved at the competitions. Many shaped like long necked lizards, talons the size of bear paws, heads like parrots, and wings like chickens! I learned how to shape eagle heads my 4th year of carving when i discovered an eagle skull on the beach. From then on I was i little more pleased with my results.

It also helped me with anatomy when I carved other birds! Here is a carving I sculpted for Bob Detlethfs.  Its going next to his man made waterfall-pond full of trout. He also owns one of my bugling Bull Elk.  Check out more Eagle and other Carvings at JordanCarving.com

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Bird wood carvings are prety fun to work on.  I got an order to do a approaching golden eagle carving for the Alaska Wild Bird Rehab Center out there in Palmer this July.

I think the guy who set me up with that job was  Keith.  Real fun.  I had a good time carving that golden eagle statue.  That turned out to be one of the best days this summer.  It was sunny, hot, no wind at all, and people were coming from all over stopping by my property out there in Indian, AK.  People were admiring all the chainsaw carvings I had.  Fish carvings, bear carvings, moose carvings, you name it.  It was a great day.  And for anyone who was in Alaska this summer we did not get many sunny pleasant days.

I loved sculpting that eagle carving though.  I think I have perfected them.  Some things I can just capture witheagle I can’t explain it…

The eyes.  You have to have realistic eyes for you eagle carving to look right.  You can make the best sculpture in the world but without the eyes it looks lifeless.  I found out about a place in Germany that makes the most detail oriented eyes I could find.  You can even see the veins.  When I put them on the eagle it comes to life.  It gives them that deep dark stare that eagles are known for.

Now unlike some of my other carvings with eagle or any bird sculptures I try to carve within the wood grain as much as possible to minimize breakage/maximize duribility.  I use my chainsaw to carve the bulk of the body but thats as far as it goes with that.  You have to use to smaller tools to do the rest.  That’s why they take so long.  The talons, beak, and wings are extremely fragile and if you use the chainsaw they have the tendency to break while you are working.  So I end up mainly using the chisel.  It especially takes some time to do each feather on the wings.  I love wood carvings that challenge me and I have to be detail oriented to make them work.  Eagles are definitely one of them.

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