Relief Wood Carving--October 15th, Wednesday I'm not really good at crafty work. I do doodle on a blank paper when I get bored sometimes, but doing something for art class is different. I've been carving a wood block in the art class since the middle of last month. The art teacher asked us to design on the wood blocks first before starting carving in relief. I drew pumpkin with its swirling sprigs after considering what to choose among several things. I don't know why it takes so long to carve this freaking wood block. The teacher gave us some safety instruction that carve away from ourselves when using chisels and put hands behind chisels. I'm still in the process of carving out wood to remove wood wastes to make depth of back ground. He usually give surprise project and that make us buy items at a certain stationery shop. Oh don't get it wrong. I'm not talking about he told us to buy at that shop. It's because the stationery shop is the biggest shop so students here happen to buy items from there. I don't have many art classes during week and the deadline is coming. Aargh! I hope he allows taking the wood blocks out of the art class so that students can keep doing the relief carving. Somehow the wood is so hard and it's not carved easily. But the teacher seems to have no difficulty carving wood with his tools.