Horse Portrait

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Horse Portrait

01-19-2012, 05:35 PM

I did this from a piece of cherry that the neighbor had given me. It was very well dried out and had wormy holes in it in which I had no idea about until I planed it down. I wanted to keep some of the bark on and decided I would burn some with my mini torch. I really like how this came out.
I still have no clue to who the pattern designer is.
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01-19-2012, 11:57 PM

That is very very nice looking. Did you burn around parts of it?
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01-20-2012, 12:23 AM

Never saw the burning effect before -looks good ..........

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01-22-2012, 07:23 PM

Very nice Cherie

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01-23-2012, 09:16 AM

Very very nice. Excellent work.
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