carving

Riding one of Doug McKee’s skateboards is like shredding the streets on a totem pole. Each board is hand-carved and painted by McKee using western red cedar. Mckee developed his amazing wood crafting skills living on an Indian reservation where Native Americans showed him the technique behind the chisel.

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Think again. The above portraits are not charcoal or pencil drawings, in fact they’re not even drawings. They’re carvings. Philadelphia artist Alex Queral revives old phonebooks by carving faces of celebrities and historical figures into them through a tedious process that typically takes several weeks to complete.
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