Druid's Mask

Took me about a year to carve this bastard. I thought I was taking sort of a shortcut when I picked up a half a log, thinking "Well, it's already curved on the outside. All I gotta do is hollow out the inside and cut some eye holes"

Turns out, Chinese Chestnut is an exceptionally hard wood. So it took a lot of chisel work, gouge work, and knife work to get in the shape I wanted.

The wood is Chinese chestnut, stained on the sides, the antlers are real(found), and in the forehead are in set moss agate, onyx, and malachite.

How the making process went can be seen here: wanton-groove.deviantart.com/a…