10/24/2026
People ask if I sketch it first. I don't have to,
I dont sketch first, i work with the prefilled features the gives me work with,
and then pick a few features and traits that i cycle thru,
each slice then will show me what it wants to be,
and then its on, and my mind turns off and i go and flow.
so the answer to the question is simply "no", lol
the lake starts every sketch.
i finish it.
By the time driftwood reaches my bench, the water has already drawn on it: shape, wear, spalt lines in the grain like rivers on a map. Then the saw gets a say: every cross-cut off the same log opens a different face - different pockets, different splatting, different features. Same tree, never the same piece twice.
My burner finishes the sketch the lake started - by hand, and everything out of this shop is made by a human; the imperfections are the proof.
This is Mountain of Dreams No. 0003 - Star & Moon, one of thirty nights over the same mountain - a star and a moon sharing one sky, a for whoever ends up wearing it. $50, one of one. Buying it is the only way to hold it: no reserves, and when it is gone, that exact piece is gone.
https://doodle-wood.com/shop/mountain-of-dreams/mountain-of-dreams-0003
- Monkey Mike, Cleveland, Ohio
