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Where Art Meets the Heart

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Guest Artist
Richard Carpenter

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Presents Guest Folk Artist
Richard Carpenter

Folk Art like you've NEVER seen before

Richard Carpenter and his Pine Needle Bear, Mountain Magic - a New Life.

Pine Needle Bears

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Carvings

Buttons

Jewelry

Miscellaneous Art

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All Pine Needle Bear and Carving Images, copyright ©Richard Carpenter, 2008 - all rights reserved

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Nature
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Picture of the Month

Quantum Zen

Book Attic

Neat Links

Day of the Whales

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Pine Needle Bears

Mountain Magic
A New Life

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White Heart
Little Bear Innocence

White Heart and Little Bear innocence, by folk artist Richard Carpenter

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What do you do when you have little money and decide to be a country folk artist?
You become creative - use what resources you find lying around.

And what do you find in the mountains of Idaho?
PINE TREES!
So now you're thinking, something made of wood . . . Right?

Not even close.

My bears are made from Pine Needles - gathered from the ground, sorted, washed, trimmed and hand woven.

It takes a couple hundred thousand pine needles and over 8 months to make a life-sized bear.

More Bear Cubs

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Carvings

To make a living, I carve Antlers and other materials - Moose, Deer, Elk, horn, wood, ivory and more. Whatever I can find.

Nothing goes to waste. I use every little scrap of material, as seen with the motorcycle below. It's under 2 1/2" in length. I used 17 different materials to make it. Some of the materials are Walrus Ivory, Ironwood, Water Buffalo horn, Moose Antler, Silver, rhinestones, shell, metal, Plastic, rubber and more. The wheels and handle bars turn, too!