A Beginning – My Adventure in Carving – A Finale… with more to come.

Well this has certainly been an adventure. The process alone takes time, and is both rewarding and heartbreaking. When I cut into this block and saw the flaws that existed, I figured this attempt was lost, my first shot, a bust. But low and behold, with some time, patience and a little creativity I finished with something that I did not see immediately.

A Beginning – My Adventure in Carving – Part I

As many of you may recall from my article on my local carver Brian Kalnitz (https://theeagerbeaver.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/brian-kalnitz-the-work-of-a-local-artisan/), I have spent many months watching and learning from him. It began as a simple curiosity and evolved into an intense desire to produce the same works of art that I saw Brian creating. I have always had an attraction to art and the creation of it, although my definition of art may be different than most. My business, residential concrete work, in my opinion has always been artistic in nature. The process of taking blank canvas which is in the form of someones backyard and out of that creating a patio or walkway that incorporates with the landscape so that it looks as though it has existed there from the beginning. There is more put into the process than people may think. I have always prided myself on not just simply asking for dimensions, but asking a customer what they want to feel when they look out their window. This is how to truly create something that is from them, and simply brought to life by me.