The Oracle

here's an altar box that is kinda an ongoing project. some of you have seen it unpainted in other photos, but i recently added some colour:




and here is a buddha style head that i bought for 1.99 and painted with gold and chrome paint to go into my bedroom once its decorated. it was the colour of the base.

Wow. That box is amazing!

How long has it taken to get it to this level?

Glenn

well i bought the box plain and it took about 20 odd hours to do the carving because it was my first time carving on a flat surface (i'd previously only done wands). but the painting didn't take long at all. so to get to that stage i'd say about 21/22 hours.

but there was about a year between carving and painting.

You do realise you are making us old hands who can't carve for love nor money look bad lol

All joking aside, I love it, it just screams personal and it also has that wonderfully Pagan feel

FANTASTIC!!

it has a butterfly on the front too. i think i have a pic of it somewhere.

and speaking of hands, several times the wood almost ended up a fetching red shade! it would help if i had the proper tools, cos i had to do this box with a darn paring knife and one craft knife (you know, the ones that are like scalpels).

aha, found it!


i used teak oil on it since then so the wood is the same colour as the top.