“Santa carving a Santa” has been a subject carved several times and is being carved again as indicated by the two in the beginning stages of being carved to the basic form.  Serving as a back drop are photographs of earlier editions of the same subject and the one in the middle was carved in 1999.  The very first one was carved in the mid 90’s as a commission but sad to say there is no photograph of the very first one.  Read the rest of this entry »