The great Michelangelo once said of his famous sculpture “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set it free.” Zachary-area artist Burt Fleming, likewise, sees images in wood and fires up a ...

THURMONT, Md. (AP) -- Joe Stebbing started out carving wood the old-fashioned way. With chisels and a mallet. Trouble was, it took about three months to make a single carving. Stebbing, a plumber by ...

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) - At first glance, it looks like an ordinary stand selling firewood at the corner of Dewey and Porter, across from Ocean Springs City Hall. A replica of the famed Crooked ...

RED LAKE FALLS, Minn. — Where many people might just see a log — sometimes a very big log — Joe Wavra sees potential. And he’s perfected the art of bringing that potential to life, so to speak, with a ...

The tree is me.” A 91-year-old active sculptor holding a chainsaw and cutting wood said. Kim Yunsin, the first-generation female sculptor who reached her prime at the age of 90, left Korea for ...

Larry Wrenn has found solace in the buzzing and whirring of his new craft. Wrenn’s carving history began two years ago when he needed an old tree removed from his yard. Wrenn had seen pictures of wood ...

The world's best chainsaw sculptors have gone head-to-head turning plain chunks of logs into jaw-dropping pieces of art. Sculptors from Australia were joined by those from New Zealand, Germany, Japan, ...

HARLEYSVILLE, Pennsylvania -- Matthew Dietrich never set out to become a professional chainsaw carver. "I was doing small crafts and I would just give them out," he said. "And I was doing small slices ...

With precision and skill, Michael Watson carefully edges his chainsaw over the exposed, dried-out log in front of him until it resembles a face. He is carving the long beard of a wood spirit into a ...