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CT artist turns to the skies for inspiration, carving and painting intricate bird sculptures

"When I'm working on a bird, I have to almost imagine how they're feeling and what they're feeling and why they're doing the ...
KAIT

Wings of Wonder bird carvings on exhibit at LR nature center

LITTLE ROCK (AGFC) – John James Audubon worked with birds through his painting two centuries ago. Gerry Chisholm and Sheri Phillips-Chisholm bring birds to reality today with their woodcarving. The ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

From block to bird: How one CT woodworker finds meditative joy in the art of bird carving

Hunched over a piece of wood, Hank Sprouse whittles away in his basement workshop in Stratford, Connecticut. What looks like a simple carving now, will eventually become a realistic-looking cedar ...
Wicked Local

For Braintree resident Mastrangelo, carving birds is ‘a great hobby’

Carving birds is “a great hobby,” according to John Mastrangelo, a Braintree resident for 58 years and chaplain of American Legion Post 86. “It’s a lot of work, but you end up with something nice,” ...
Omaha.com

Family is selling Paul Johnsgard's bird carvings at Omaha estate sale

Before renowned ornithologist Paul Johnsgard began writing his many books on birds and natural history, he created beautiful carvings. Paul Johnsgard carved several birds before he turned to writing ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Glenville State College library houses carved birds

A carved chipping sparrow on display as part of Claude and Ethel Kemper “The Birds of My Hollow” collection at Glenville State College’s Robert F. Kidd Library. (Photo Provided) GLENVILLE — A ...