{"id":169485,"date":"2025-09-26T00:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T00:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/169485\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T00:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T00:33:07","slug":"artist-carves-three-wooden-skulls-over-three-different-time-periods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/169485\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Carves Three Wooden Skulls Over Three Different Time Periods"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=Blake+McFarland\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">Innovative<\/a> mixed media artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blakemcfarland.com\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">Blake McFarland<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bmsculptures\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">BM Sculptures<\/a> challenged himself to carve three different life-sized wooden skulls over three different time periods. McFarland gave himself five minutes for the first skull, five hours for the second skull, and five days for the third.<\/p>\n<p>I Carved 3 Skulls \u2013 5 minutes vs. 5 Hours vs. 5 Days to see if more time means better art.<\/p>\n<p>McFarland realized that he answered his own question as the two pieces that had much more time looked far better than the five minute one. <\/p>\n<p>This was an absolute blast to make. I\u2019m going to show you guys the final reveal of these sculptures i\u2026 Maybe not so much of this one, but these two definitely. <\/p>\n<p>Both finished skulls are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blakemcfarland.com\/store-2\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">available for purchase<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated Posts\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Innovative mixed media artist Blake McFarland of BM Sculptures challenged himself to carve three different life-sized wooden skulls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-169485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}