The great Michelangelo once said of his famous sculpture “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set it free.” Zachary-area artist Burt Fleming, likewise, sees images in wood and fires up a ...
THURMONT, Md. (AP) -- Joe Stebbing started out carving wood the old-fashioned way. With chisels and a mallet. Trouble was, it took about three months to make a single carving. Stebbing, a plumber by ...
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) - At first glance, it looks like an ordinary stand selling firewood at the corner of Dewey and Porter, across from Ocean Springs City Hall. A replica of the famed Crooked ...
The world's best chainsaw sculptors have gone head-to-head turning plain chunks of logs into jaw-dropping pieces of art. Sculptors from Australia were joined by those from New Zealand, Germany, Japan, ...
HARLEYSVILLE, Pennsylvania -- Matthew Dietrich never set out to become a professional chainsaw carver. "I was doing small crafts and I would just give them out," he said. "And I was doing small slices ...
On a sunny late-January afternoon, Danbury resident Sergio Atanasoff stood atop a mountain of sawdust he has inadvertently been creating for four years. With a roaring gas chain saw, he was adding ...
Michael Blaine sliced, shaved, jabbed and poked at an 8-foot-high white pine log with his assorted chainsaws until the form of a cowgirl emerged. Periodically consulting photographs of the woman he’s ...