1. James McMahon Tree Carver

2. What do you see in the next 4 slides?

3. Howard Dill-Windsor

4. Firefighter’s Monument-Hantsport

5. Detail-Firefighter

6. Pumpkin-Windsor

7. What do you think these feel like?

8. What kinds of textures were used?

9. Explain what the artist has done to add detail.

10. How does the artist make this look like real rope?

11. What do you think the sculptures are made of?

12. How do you think the artist protects the work?

13. Why do you think the artist made the figures so tall? What does it say about their character? Sea Captain-Hantsport

14. How has the artist used the shape and texture of the tree stump to add to the sculpture?

15. Do you think the cracks in the wood add to the sculpture or not?

16. How would you show a person’s character in your artwork?

17. How do you think the characters of these three sculptures are alike? Different?

18. On the following website, three different artists made the sculptures. See if you can identify which of three different artists made each sculpture. Look at the styles. Click on the title of each to see if you were right. http://truro.ca/committees/tree_comm/gallery.htm

19. Who or what would you make a carving of? What might some of the difficulties be?

20. Do you think the carvings are a suitable way to remember these men? Why?

21. The End