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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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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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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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."
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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."