The feathers of a scissortail flycatcher emerge from a block of wood when Charles Wolfe gets busy carving birds at his garage-turned-studio in Fayetteville. There's an American Kestrel perched on a ...

A few times a year, a workshop at the Guilford Handcraft Center turns into a place where Geppetto, the woodcarver, would be happy. Here, a half-dozen students arrive eager to turn simple blocks of ...

The average songbird has anywhere from 2,000 to 4,000 feathers. A swan can have up to 25,000. But if Bill Rice had to think about that, he'd hang up his band saw, rasp and hook knife and go back to ...

GAYLORD — Wood-carver Brian Hoxie said his skills as a painter are somewhat suspect, so he instead opts to wood burn the feathers and scales on the birds and fish he carves. Hoxie’s skill set at ...

Jennifer Felton is passionate about timelessly capturing birds and feathers in wood. A national award-winning artist, Jennifer Felton is passionate about carving and timelessly capturing birds and ...

Eighty-one-year-old woodcarver and naturalist Bob Spear has birds on the brain and has since he started crafting them from wood in 1938. That s when the teen-ager, then living on a Colchester farm, ...

Cedar fan birds are not considered fine art, but still they require skill and artful hands. The birds carved from wood have deep roots in Europe of the past when men, traveling far from home, sat ...

NEWMARKET — Since he retired 10 years ago, Chet Jablonski's Newmarket home has been full of beautiful birds. From the moment you walk into the house through glass doors, birds. First thing you?ll see ...

SMITHSBURG — John Zeigler Sr. has enjoyed art for as long as he can remember. “I always loved drawing and that kind of stuff. I did some art work when I was younger but I guess I never stuck with it,” ...