Pine Tree Studios of New England

  Krampus  is a figure in Alpine folklore that is sort of an anti-Santa Claus.   Melanie Christopher of  Still Dead Art  is a very talented illustrator and I have several of her prints in my personal collection.  I ran into her again vending at a holiday fair and after adding a few more of her prints to my collection I started thinking of a carving inspired by her illustration of Krampus. The morning I completed the carving, Krampus and I celebrated with a tasty holiday beer at  Navigation Brewing Checking the fit of the individual parts:  Exploded view of all the components after woodburning, painting, and finishing. 2024 Recycled Eastern White Pine, recycled leather.  Woodburned and polychromed with a polyurethane finish.

 I completed the Thanksgiving week which is the earliest completion date in recent memory.  I waited to post them until I started distributing them. Making the ornaments is the continuation of a decades old tradition for me of exchanging ornaments with the late M. Paul Ward.   2024 Recycled Eastern White Pine, polychromed.