[Woodcarver] How you chose your specialty

[Linehan718 at aol.com]

I still have not chosen my specialty area, or rather it still hasn't chosen  
me.  When i started carving I really wanted to do reliefs but after  3&1/2 
years I can count the reliefs i've done on one hand, but my busts and  statues 
and sculptures number in the many.  I would like to go into more  classical 
carving, by classical I mostly mean mallet work, reliefs and  acanthus.  Problem 
is people keep commissioning me to do woodspirits and  bark carvings.  I will 
probably wind up down the road being a full time  commission carver also doing 
my own classical style on the side.  I love  grinling gibbons and ian norburys 
work and will probably start heading toward  some more complicated stuff in 
the near future.
 
Maura carvin'  in  nyc
http://www.carvinginNYC.com
http://www.picturetrail.com/carvinginnyc
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