Wood Art, by Eric Darnell

Our family was blessed with talent. I noticed early in life Shirl was good with art and crafts.  I had a knack for 'copying', I could copy a picture but was not good at originality. My Brother Odis was an artist with a stick, pencil or brush.  He also could sculpt wood.

 Brother Junior could do about anything with metal or plants.  Ted  and Joe Darnell  could  do anything with metal.  Ted won awards for creating BBQ cookers. some of the creations amazed folk. He has used cars and trucks to create cookers. Joe was into welding art and tree stands for a long time. He is a welder by trade. Ted has retired.

Sister Kat had a way of painting  reminiscent of Vincent van Gogh.

Nephew Bubby,  Odis's son, was an artist in pencil and brick and mortar,  his creations could have won awards.

Ted's son Eric was into 'inking' as an artist, he retired from that and is now creating 'Wood Art'. I wanted something special for this new little house so I sent him this picture:

He returned this to us:

He gave me an example of this work in an e-mail of his uncle Joe and Sandy.

Once I received the photo and saw it up close I realized what he was doing. In our picture anyway, the carving  is the white over laid on the black back ground (evidently by a super jig saw or laser). Very unique.  I like ours and it will fit well in our little house.

It is very intricate work, but as he said, it is not an up close thing, but at a distance, 'It comes to you.'  I am hoping he is successful in his new endeavor. He is easily found on Facebook.

Life is good.

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 My brothers were the only people I ever knew that owned a Kaiser Frazer.