December 2, 2009 Visit

Mariah and I visited the carving studio after school today. It doesn't look like any work has been done on the reindeer. There are many animals in various stages of caring and painting. We'll post photos of a few of the animals.

The blocks for Sampson the rooster have arrived.

Here's the drawing of Sampson:


Below is the armored horse named Sir Adrian Chapman:


and a close up view showing some details:


Here is the drawing of Sir Adrian Chapman:


There's a unicorn named Marcy in progress:


and a black buck antelope whose native territory is India. This carousel black buck is named Taz. The sponsor for Taz raises black buck antelope in Albany so there are lots of live models for the carver to view the animal's anatomy.

Here's a close up of carving details on Taz:


Taffy the alpaca's carved head was shown on our summer visit blog. Here's the drawing of the alpaca:


and here's a detail shot of the roses in progress:



The little lamb that will stand with Peace the Lioness is sporting a muffler now that it's winter. The lamb in an earlier stage of carving was also shown on our summer visit blog.


Daisy, the little elephant was shown on November 18 without her head. Here she is with her head in place.


Below is a close up of Daisy's head.



Here's a photo of the painting progress on a line up of animals in the painting area: