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Sculptures, Wooden Indians and Wood Art Sculpture, Wooden Indians and Wood Art Thought that I would update this story about this wonderful sculpture artist Tom Woods. I have been going through some of the old articles that I had written over ten years ago and rather than just dump them I thought that it would be a better idea just to refresh them. I mean some of these posts I have written about other artists surely deserve another look at by the ones who may be looking for keepsake sculptures carved out of wood. Most people who know me, know that I love all different kinds of art forms and do a lot of networking. When I run across an artist who is deeply involved with an art form that I believe is on the endangered arts list, I’ll do a post on the art and the artist to try and bring more awareness to the art form which starts this post off Wood Sculptures, Art and Wooden Indians  Wood sculpture artist Thomas Jenkins of Toms Wood Arts Artist Thomas Jenkins is a sculpture artist that works with wood and produces wooden Indians, wood art, and many other kinds of wood sculptures large and small. I don’t know about you but I haven’t seen a wooden Indian in years. I remember as a child growing up wooden Indians were at the local cigar shop, drug store, and even barbershop. It seemed where ever you looked there was a hand-carved wooden Indian greeting you at nearly every storefront, especially if you grew up in the midwest such as I did. It dawned on me that you really don’t see many artists carrying on wood art and the sculpture of wooden Indians which goes back a couple of hundred years when our country was still in its infancy. I realize of course that wood sculpture is still an ongoing wood art but it’s mainly done with modern tools of the day whereas back in the 17 and 1800’s wooden Indians, wood art, and sculptures were all done by hand as well as the decorative painting and faux finishing. Ahhhh I bet you thought I wasn’t going to squeeze in the faux finishing and decorative painting part did you? Well, you must understand as I have posted in my other articles that art is all relative and without one, you wouldn’t have the other. Tom Jenkins Wood Art To bring more enlightenment to the subject I pulled a little information from Wikipedia and entered it below about the sculptures Wooden Indians are often three-dimensional wooden sculptures several feet tall – up to life-sized. They are still occasionally used for their original advertising purpose but are more often seen as decorations or advertising collectibles Because of the general illiteracy of the populace, early store owners used descriptive sculptures and wood art figures to advertise their shops’ wares. Wooden Indians and tobacco had always been associated because American Indians introduced tobacco to Europeans, and the depiction of native people on sculpture smoke-shop signs was almost inevitable. As early as the seventeenth century, European tobacconists used figures of Wooden Indians to advertise their shops. Because European sculptures had never seen a Native American, this early cigar-store “Wooden Indians” looked more like black slaves with feathered headdresses and other sculptured fanciful, exotic features. These wood art carvings were called “Black Boys” or “Virginians” in the trade. Eventually, the European wooden Indian sculptures began to take on a more “authentic” yet highly stylized native visage, and by the time the smoke-shop figure arrived in the Americas in the late eighteenth century, it had become thoroughly “Indian.” After a few emails back and forth with Tom who I had met through a Linked In group called Art Marketing.  I decided to visit his  woodsculptureart.com  website and found that he has a unique style of sculptures and wood art. What really caught my eye and impressed me was the wooden Indian. When asked, he told me that he especially loves doing the larger life-size wood art sculptures because of the amount of detail. Could you imagine a life-size American Bald Eagle? What I like about Tom’s work is he is versatile and with today’s demand for contemporary sculptures he could custom design a large-scale piece for any commercial project that was calling for wood art. I have always been a fan of sculptures and wood art and have often thought about picking it up myself but I have always been drawn back to the brush. However, I have worked with wood in my younger days when I custom designed and built furniture that a few of my family members and they still have it but that was at least 35 years ago lol. I hope you all enjoyed this little trip in another direction of the arts and aim to do more of these which most of you already know because I will write about unique musicians, artists, and a number of other topics related to the arts. My next post is going to be about an artist who has many talents and delves in the Pop Art world and has a very unique style and fresh approach to Urban Art and he is right here in Naples. So I hope you all enjoyed this trip into the world ofRead more

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