Wildlife Sculpting

Wildlife Sculpting Fine art sculptures hand crafted in Vermont from wood and bronze. One of a kind and custom made home decorations for bird and animal lovers.

Here is a picture of some newly finished black Capped Chickadees and golden crowned kinglets. I will be starting som...
05/10/2026

Here is a picture of some newly finished black Capped Chickadees and golden crowned kinglets. I will be starting some carolina and winter wren this week.

With the loons project finished, it is time to start something new. Today I roughed out the clay models for a Carolina...
05/07/2026

With the loons project finished, it is time to start something new. Today I roughed out the clay models for a Carolina and a Winter Wren.

Last year at the New Brunswick Carving show in St. Andrews CA, a friend of mine brought a life size loon sculpture. I ...
05/02/2026

Last year at the New Brunswick Carving show in St. Andrews CA, a friend of mine brought a life size loon sculpture. I was impressed and intrigued. Common loons are pretty interesting birds. So I decided to carve some miniature loons. Each bird is only 7.5 inches long. They are carved from tupelo and painted with oils. The base (the carved water and the molded edge) is made from a beautiful slab of black walnut. At this point the birds have to dry for a month before the final application of a satin protective spray. And the glass eyes (5mm diameter) have not been cleaned yet. I carved these birds to help support the Loon conservation efforts in Greensboro, Vermont.

This month I've taken a break from the pair of Loons Sculpture and focused on some Golden Crowned Kinglets. I finishe...
03/27/2026

This month I've taken a break from the pair of Loons Sculpture and focused on some Golden Crowned Kinglets. I finished five of them this afternoon. They are carved from tupelo and painted with acrylics. All of the bases are things I have found during my walks in the woods. Low stress carving without worrying about being judged.

This is an interesting picture. Sometimes I think that a black and white picture reveals more than the same picture in ...
03/15/2026

This is an interesting picture. Sometimes I think that a black and white picture reveals more than the same picture in color. Maybe because the colors are distracting. All too often carvers exaggerate or over look details that make the feathers too rounded and feathers that look like steps. Look at the feather layout. It's different than what is normally shown an carvings. You can see the scapulars resting on top of the primaries. The primaries resting on top of the secondaries (note that the secondaries do not cover the the primary coverts - something that is often over looked) and the primary coverts on top of the primaries.

All that said, art is an interpretation of what people see. Details take time and patience that are often a luxury. I have not ever carved a bird wing that shows so much detail, but I may work my way up to that in the future. Growth is only possible if we push ourselves out of out comfort zone.

Okay here is one angle with the loons sitting on the base before it was sealed.
01/22/2026

Okay here is one angle with the loons sitting on the base before it was sealed.

Here is a preview of the base for a miniature pair of common Loon sculpture. I am quite happy with how the loons and th...
01/22/2026

Here is a preview of the base for a miniature pair of common Loon sculpture. I am quite happy with how the loons and the base have progressed. The birds are still not quite ready to paint. More pictures will follow in a while.

Most of you have probably heard me talking about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Feather Atlas. It's an excellent resource...
12/31/2025

Most of you have probably heard me talking about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Feather Atlas. It's an excellent resource for Bird Carvers. You can search the data base for the species scientific or common name. I'm in the process of carving a pair of two Common Loons and while I thought that I knew what their primary feathers looked like, I was wrong. Unlike most birds the Common loon's primary feathers are pointed. Rather than simply draw what I saw, I enlarge or reduce the image to match the size of the carving. I then trace them onto plain white paper and cut them out. I then stack the paper feathers on top of each other as they would be on a folded wing. Here are the feather pictures that I used.

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