deer head sculpture
Ideas
Description:
For the final project, I would like to make a wooden sculpture of a deer head. The sculpture is made by multiple pieces of wood. The wood boards in two-dimension are assembled in the way that can make up a sculpture in three-dimension. Larger piece of curved wood can also be used for the horns of the deer head.
Motivation:
I personally really like the sculpture of deer horns, and dreamed of having one on my home. For using the real deer horns as decoration are cruel and inhumane. Using wood as substitution conveys the signal of animal protection and appeals for the attention to profitable animal killing.
Examples of Object:
1.
This is one deer head sculpture using solid wood, much effort is used to cut the deer shape out of the big piece of wood, as well as the other details like the fur and bones. This project is mainly about cutting and carving one piece of wood into the shape of deer head.
2.
This project is one wood deer head sculpture made of several piece of wood boards. The wood boards make up the head in a simple and understandable way. The design and assemble of different wood would be the major difficulty for this piece.
3.
This deer head looks more like a cardboard project rather than a woodworking project. It used quite a few very thin wood boards for the different layers of the sculpture. Since it has more pieces of wood, many joints are used in this project.
These three projects are all wooden deer head sculptures, but is made up by different amounts of wood pieces. With fewer pieces, the project focuses more on the carving and shaping, and with the increase amount of wood, the project pays more attention on the assembling process.
Inspiration:
There is one artist named Roger Kentish who did several animal head wall mounted using wood.
stag head highland cow head
He had done several wooden animal head sculptures, the left one is a deer and right as a cow. One characteristic on these two projects is that the heads are consist of several pieces of wood with the clear appearance of distinct pieces. He didn’t try to hide the joints of each piece to make the project more like one piece. Instead, he emphasis the different pieces. This style makes his work distinctive.
Build Plan
Stock:
I would like to use several pieces of solid wood boards as well as two or three larger solid wood pieces for the three dimensional shaping as the deer horns and nose. I want to work with some wood with lighter colors like white or light yellow.
Building Process:
1. Design. I think the design process might be the most difficult part of the whole project. I have to decide the exact shape and size of each wood board as well as the deer horns. I also need to make sure that each piece can join together later. It might not be a easy task to guarantee the deer shape and at the same time having feasible plans for each wood piece.
2. Cutting. After deciding each piece, I would cut out each one. I would probably mainly use band saw for the shaping. Templates might be necessary to guarantee that I could get symmetric shapes for different pieces. I may also use table saw for the jointing parts.
3. Assembling. Having each piece cut and sanded, I would then need to join them together. With proper design, there should be corresponding joint shapes so that I could assemble them easily, wood glue would also be needed for this process.
4. Finishing. The last step should be applying the finishing on wood. I think I would not add colors or other paintings to the wood, the color of wood would be just fine.
Hope I can do something better than this one 🙏🙏
Reference
The three samples:
Pieces by the artist Roger Kentish:
Another woodworking piece：
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/806074033307126644/activity/tried
