TheJerBear

My friend that is 100% top notch world class museum quality art. Very nice!

Hello my British brothers! It has been a minute but here is a video the city of Cedartown made to go along with this Trail of Tears memorial they commissioned me to carve. [ame] [/ame] Art Hard, J

Came here to compliment you on those hands and the overall scope and AMBITION of your first chainsaw project. Very well done, sir. Now go carve some more! Art Hard J

Ooh wow. Now I want to read that censored forum! Is it the Pinske forum that separated from the main body? I have wondered why there seems to be about twelve different forum that all have the same posters and posts almost. Dervish: yup there are plenty of bear carvings here in the states. When I first started this adventure into the great sport of chainsaw carving I thought that bears were the only thing some of these blokes could carve. As it turns out, they just like to eat. Carvers carve bears because people buy bears. People buy bears because carvers carve bears. It's almost like a self-perpetuating cycle. The first successful working chainsaw carver I met sat me down and explained the facts of life to me: you can carve what people buy and make money doing it or you can be an 'artiste' and hold on to your old job. I'm kinda half way in the middle of that artist/capitalist spectrum but I can't fault the logic. Art Hard J

I don't mind at all. May I ask what group that is?

I don't know how closely you lot follow what passes for news in the states, but after I watched the video of a man being choked to death by police in New York I was moved to carve this. Hope it doesn't offend anyone. "I Can't Breathe" - Imgur Art Hard, J

Very nice! You know I'll like it.

. . . but at least I used teak oil on this one! Autumn Father-an experiment with color: Autumn Father - Imgur Art Hard, J

Here are some of mine from last year Pumpkins - Imgur I am currently taking a short break from carving this logo pumpkin for the October cover of a regional feature magazine; will post pics when finished. Art Hard, J

Btw I'm not terribly fond of the way spar stains the wood. Other than blo what would be a good way of preserving a carving? The woodcraft part of this is still eluding me.

Yup. And that pic was taken too soon after I varnished it. So you lot don't put anything on your carvings to preserve them? I didn't even think it was feasible to not coat a carving without it cracking and splitting. But again, I'm just a newb.

Here is my second green man/foliate face. More than a little inspired by Andrew Frost's work, this autumnal green man was carved from oak for a nice couple who are going to make it the center piece of their new basement pub. Art Hard, J Autumnal Green Man - Imgur

This is a stylized rose I carved for my first chainsaw carving commission. It was the third time I used the saw to carve with. It's a start:) Stylized Rose-my first commission as a chainsaw carver! - Imgur Art Hard, J

Wow that one looks awesome. Have you some pics from other angles?

I've been carving for about a year and a half, and even though that's not very long in the grand scheme of things I'm pretty sure this is what I'm going to do with my life. Haven't done any demos or shows or anything. Haven't even BEEN to one, but I'm going to Ridgeway this coming year (probably only as a spectator), and someday I hope to be invited to Chetwynd and the Husky Cup.

This is my second go at chainsaw carving. It's supposed to be an authentic Cherokee indian bust carved from a log that has been growing on the high street in my home town for decades. What would you lot use to finish it? I want it to last forever and I want the cracking to stop. What are my options? The Brave - Imgur Thanks! Art Hard, J

Dude, just so you know: this carving was getting some attention on a site called reddit and people that have never heard of you or reddit keep showing it to me and asking if I had seen it. I live in the US, so congratulations on the media attention. May I ask what your carving experience is? Perhaps we have similar origins. Anyway, cheers mate. I hope that in an ironic twist of fate you are being besieged by all your Facebook friends asking you if you have seen this flower that some guy carved out of a tree stump. Art Hard, J

'ello again mates! here's an updated photo album of this piece, including pictures with flowers planted in it. The Davis Bloom - Imgur Dervish thanks for setting me straight on the whole self-taught thing. It's just that my carving abilities kinda sprouted in a vacuum and All Of It seems a little weird to me. All the people whose work in this field that I admire (like Frost, Cragg, O'rourke, etc) all seem to have duel skill sets in tree work and art. When I think of all the stuff I could have learned by studying this stuff in school . . . My hometown newspaper wrote a nice little puff piece about the Bloom . . . Local waiter carves out a reputation for artistry - Rome News-Tribune: Local And in case you were wondering, here are some of the pumpkins that started it all . . . Pumpkins - Imgur And here is my first wood carving, The Grenn The Grenn - Imgur Thanks for the positive feedback, gang. And if any of you lot happen to know Andrew Frost, please tell him thank you for inspiring a baby cub carver from America to pick up a saw. I'll know I'm getting good if I ever carve something anywhere close to being as awesome as The Green Man of Crich. Art Hard, J

Dude that is an awesome stack of books! You did a really bang up job on it but think of the poor children walking in to school and seeing an intimidating stack of tomes the size of the latter Harry Potters:)

Hello friends! My name is Jeremy and I'm from across the pond in America. I've been carving for about a year and a half now after being asked to carve a pumpkin for my wife's pre-K class. After pumpkin season was over I looked around for whatever I could find to carve--carrots, candles, styrofoam, etc, until I rescued a piece of red oak from a neighbor's firewood pile. I worked on that piece of oak for about four months with a dremel before it was a beautiful work of art that was sold before it was even finished. The money from that sale and a pumpkin carving commision and the paltry prize money from the county fair from my styrofaom Buddha was barely enough to unlock chainsaw mode, but unlock it it did. I got a carving package from Bailey's and found a stump to carve, a less than ideal elderberry stump that was suffering from a rot issue (that actually came in handy). So, without ANY training whatsoever, without any experience operating a chainsaw save for a three hour orientation I allowed myself in order to figure out what the buttons do and which end to point where, and without any art classes or training, this is my very first chainsaw carving and, to date, only my second wood carving. The Davis Bloom http://i.imgur.com/zngOHJz.jpg Thank you for viewing and do please let me know what you think. Art Hard, J