Originally published on August 6, 2008
Just how that poor fella can sleep with those two around is beyond me!!! You might remember these two smiling faces from my post some time back on making a paper manikin. Well….they’re back! That’s Hannah with an “H” on the left and Miriam with an “M” on the right.
(Time passes!)
With the Grandkids back safely in Bahrain I was able to wrap this piece up this morning. I think he turned out pretty good. I was having a problem trying to settle on a name for the village sign until I looked up Tequila and saw that it is a village in Mexico. Just by chance we had a bottle of Jose Cuervo in the liquor cabinet so I spirited it off to the shop, taking a sip on the way to get the true feel of this fella’s situation. If you’re familiar with the Cuervo label you’ll recognize it. Once the sign was painted I thought it wouldn’t really look complete without a few bullet holes so I drill a few random shots and then used the burner to lightly outline each hole. Makes a nice little touch.
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As always, comments welcome.
Great carving, lovely grandkids!