Dancing girl carving

[bunn]

Last year's Christmas tree had quite a wiggle to its trunk. I wanted to catch that wiggle in the decoration that I carved from it. In my head this was a 'dancing' wiggle, and so I tried to make a dancing figure, to stand for Cottia dancing in this post-Eagle of the Ninth story that I wrote.  

  

I'm quite pleased with it, though I think she has ended up perhaps a bit chunkier than I'd intended - it's so difficult when you get down to the point where shaving off a tiny bit too much will be too far and you can never put the wood back on!  On the other hand, in the story it is a cold, wet December night and she's dancing in a muddy farmyard, so if she has any sense she is probably wearing thick underwear.

I think there is a sense of movement there anyway.   The figure is about 5 inches long, but despite the size of it, I think will work OK as a tree decoration, as it is quite slender. 

The tree was a Noble fir, which is really a nice wood to carve green, and holds quite a lot of detail. I'm quite tempted to make something else from some of the left over wood, but that might have to wait till my finger heals up a bit.   I managed to gash it a bit doing the fine detail on the hands when the chisel slipped (but adhering to the important Rules of Woodworking, managed to avoid bleeding on the wood. ) 

Comments

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's lovely.
Ehm. Lovely, I meant.

[seascribe.livejournal.com]

That is lovely! I agree that there is a sense of movement. She shows particularly well in that first picture.

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's super, a real sense of motion. -N

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Nice!

[ninja-orange.livejournal.com]

this is so beautiful!

[sibila-cantus.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness! This is gorgeous!

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

What a different type of fanart! Beautiful!

[riventhorn.livejournal.com]

Love this!! She does have a great sense of movement. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who hangs fandom-related things on the Christmas tree. :)

[citruses.livejournal.com]

Here via carmarthen's rec -- wow! I particularly love that first photo of her, where you can see her flowing hair and the shape of her back/waist/dress. What a lovely thing!

[blythechild.livejournal.com]

YOU ARE A CREATIVE, FANCIFUL GOD!

That is all. Carry on, darling... ♥