Wood is a living thing.
You may not have to rest when you are carving, but it needs to.
[Goingback Chiltoski — Cherokee Woodcarver]
Here’s an illustration I did that looks like pen and ink but was produced in a darkroom. Talk about old technology. I scratched this image with a hat pin into the emulsion of a piece of 4 x 5 sheet film then made contact prints.
Knitting, writing and other joys 
I still have the carved bird which is in the picture. I also have a beautiful frame which goingback had made which still frames one of the first pictures you painted. (Grandpa Misegades on the porch). I also still have the original photograph you used. The painting hangs in our hallway here in Wilmington. JAS.
Was Goingback the one who did my round frame for Aunt Rachel’s Knitted Lace Doily with cables?