Today’s featured artist is TwoFour Manufacturing based out of Portland, Oregon. Woodworking is one of the few art techniques I have almost no experience with (my undergrad required a large number of intro classes to arts and crafts, and I’ve even done stained glass, paper making, and architectural drawing) so I’ve always admired people who do it well.

I am a fan of owls in general and especially Kenn’s forest guardian. I love small details like the bright green eyes within the distressed and dark wood of the body. Or the red flame on the all black body of his Goat Forest Shaman.

Kenn also has a great blog post up at  TwoFour Manufacturing that shows the process he goes through in the making of one of his pieces. Creative people often get a lot of comments about the prices of our work without a lot of knowledge about the time that goes into creating our works. Add in the photographing, listing, packing, shipping, and marketing of ourselves and you start to realize there is no answer to the question “how long does it take you to make something?”.

TwoFour Manufacturing will be at the Handmade Holiday Pop Up Shop at Herbivore in Portland, Oregon, on December 18 from 4-8 pm, so stop by to check out his work and enjoy some homemade baked goods.