NATURE-INSPIRED GOURD ART GALLERY

On these gourds, Patrick Loafman combines pyrography with carving and leather dyes, shoe polishes, ink pens, watercolor and some acrylic paints for coloration.

 

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 OSPREY

"The design is inspired by the osprey, a bird that dives for fish along the Elwha River close to my home."






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SOLD Dec. 15, 2010


EAGLE GOURD, view 1

"This gourd has something different on each side. This side shows an abstraction based on the bald eagle. The white areas have been carved.
 

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SOLD Feb. 10, 2011


EAGLE GOURD, view 2

"This side of the gourd depicts a realistic woodburned eagle and just out of view below the eagle's talons is the local native word for eagle."


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EAGLE GOURD, view 3

"I wooburned Eagle in Chinese calligraphy here."



 





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BLUE HERON BOWL

"This is a food-safe gourd bowl with lid, a blue heron design on top, dyed with leather dyes and a unique carved background."

 
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SOLD Dec. 12, 2010


SEA TURTLE

"I deeply carved out the background around this turtle. The gourd is opened at the top and could be used as a vase."

 


$89.00  SOLD NOV.29, 2008


LEAVING AUTUMN

"A very unique woodburned and carved gourd. Click for addtional photos of this one, it has different images all over it. Lots of detail." 

 


 
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TREE OF LIFE

"I inlayed a fossil Ammonite in the center and carved out the background of this gourd. It is a covered bowl that you could put votive candle or battery-powered push light inside."

 
$150.00   SOLD Feb 8, 2009