Hunched over a piece of wood, Hank Sprouse whittles away in his basement workshop in Stratford, Connecticut. What looks like a simple carving now, will eventually become a realistic-looking cedar ...
Carving birds is “a great hobby,” according to John Mastrangelo, a Braintree resident for 58 years and chaplain of American Legion Post 86. “It’s a lot of work, but you end up with something nice,” ...
LITTLE ROCK (AGFC) – John James Audubon worked with birds through his painting two centuries ago. Gerry Chisholm and Sheri Phillips-Chisholm bring birds to reality today with their woodcarving. The ...
MENDON -- You could say Jim Podsiadlo's new business is for the birds, and you'd be right. Just remove the phrase's negative connotations and you have a creative venture that has literally taken wing.
Robert Roy Guge was an award-winning, internationally known woodcarver who focused his craft entirely on an original American folk art: carving and painting wildfowl. Influenced by his father, who ...
CLIFTON PARK A former U.S. Air Force pilot and private practice attorney has settled comfortably into retirement by carving spectacular likenesses of birds. Len Bergstrom acknowledges he always liked ...