Wood carving

Its me again steemers,
Now this one is different from all the other ones, this is carved on what is called Cyprus knee, this wood is found in the swamps, the root on this tree for the most part is under water and the Cyprus knee Basically it is part of the root that sits beside the tree above water level,

As you can see i have carved into the wood still leaving the bark on most of it, this one took around 30 hours to complete , this wood is a reasonably soft wood but very enjoyable to do. The painting was easy it was just a brown , now the face all i did to colour that was i dabbed a light oil on it this brought out the natural colour of the wood, its almost like skin colour.
Take care steemers.