Queen Part 1: A portrait from start to finish

You may have seen in earlier posts on this blog a wood portrait called King. In some photos, he's pictured with his mate, Queen. Here's how she came to be:

Day 1:

She's 10" x 16" x 4" thick on white cedar. Here's what she looks like after the initial roughing out. Only the tip of her nose remains at the original surface level, so as you can see, lots of stock has been removed just to get to this point.