I have done a couple of carving sessions since my last post, so I am up to about 54 hours. I have been outlining and shaping the coverts and contour feathers on the left wing, as well as fussing here and there with the primaries and secondaries. This stage of the carving is more work that I remember from my only other detailed bird carving, the Archaeopteryx. Then again, the wings of that creature were simpler than those of modern birds, and the carving as a whole was smaller. I was ambitious in choosing to carve a large bird, even at a half-size scale.
No pictures of the carving, but below is a photo of the little perennial garden I have been establishing around the stump of one of the multi-trunked, really large maples that we had removed because of rot in the “crotch”. This is the view I have right now as I write this post.
Stay tuned!
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