LUNENBURG, Vt. — It’s loud, it’s dirty, it’s dangerous. And although it demands control, precision and considerable skill, the art of chain-saw carving apparently isn’t highbrow enough to garner ...
He looks like a Halloween-season hazard as he stalks the forest with a chain saw, but George Kenny knows there’s nothing to worry about. He’s only there to add to the natural beauty. Escorted around ...
It's hard to think of a chainsaw as a tool of art. Even hammering a sculpture from stone is understandable. But a smokey, loud and dangerous chainsaw? This is Micah McKinney's art. Out in the Cass ...
Living in Montana, we can’t help but see the trees. They are a beautiful and undeniable part of our natural environment. Some people might see Christmastime when they look around the woods. Some see ...
DIVIDE • Michelangelo saw the angel in the marble and carved until he set it free. Johnny Busby sees the bear, eagle or bigfoot in a tree stump, and whittles at it with a chainsaw until he sets it ...
Watch as we carve a grizzly bear sculpture from a combination of epoxy resin and wood. Using a chainsaw and a variety of woodworking tools, this project showcases the transformation of raw materials ...
Two chainsaw artists have been working in Mount Airy to transform dead trees into works of art on the town’s Rails to Trails West. Colin Vale, 33, of Olney, is working to transform an ash tree, killed ...
HARTFORD — Luke Harris of Alton started carving figures with a chainsaw because it was safer than the previous art form he practiced. “I used to be a whittler and I’d stick myself everywhere, so I got ...
Tina Bollman approaches her craft like any other artist. She looks at her medium and imagines what it could be, and at her disposal are a wide variety of tools, each with a specific purpose. However, ...
Chainsaws are the most brutish of power tools, which makes them seem unlikely to be used as a carving utensil. But a small band of chainsaw artists have elevated their craft, and created some amazing ...
LaGRANGE, Ohio - Sculptors say they take a piece of stone and "chip away the statue hidden inside." So does Bud Emerson -- but he uses tree stumps and a chainsaw. The Wellington man is internationally ...