Wood carver

Every village has at least one village celebration per year. Not far from home is the village of St Capri, their speciality is the Chest nut fete in autumn. You can taste almost every version of chest nut recipe imaginable. Still the best is freshly toasted chestnuts with cold beer. No matter where we go we are still Australian! :-)
The local cafts people come out to show their wares at these festivals. I was particularly taken be this man as he looked like he was carving a digerydoo, but as it turned out it is an ancient version of fire bellows. Your lungs are the bellows and this instrument is used to direct your 'hot air' into the fire. Well even in ancient times they didn't want to burn off their eyebrows now did they!
The other really neat thing is the brace used to steady the wood is a roughly carved lump of tree with his left foot pushing down on a 'branch' to wedge it all in place while working.

Name: Artisan
medium: water colour
size: 50 x 40 cm
Price: $340 Aust
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