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Participation Awards

Artists who won a free subscription just for entering the contest:

Tom Fink

of North Caldwell, N.J.

Roger Hamilton

of Gallatin, Tenn.

Robert Hershey

of Lititz, Penn.

Andrew Hiroshima

of Sacramento, Calif.

Reader who won a $25 Fox Books gift certificate just for voting:

Marilyn Kroes

of Fergus, Ont., Canada

Saluting

the Best

Announcing the winners of the

2012 Best Carving Design Contest

By Mindy Kinsey

M

embers of the woodcarving

community, take a bow. You sent

a record-breaking number of entries, of

outstanding quality, to this year’s Best

Carving Design Contest and then turned out

in huge numbers to vote. Your enthusiasm,

skill, and creativity were a sight to behold.

And this happened in a year of change.

Rather than post all 600-plus entries online

for public voting—an arduous and time-

consuming task—the editors carefully

examined the entries and voted for our

favorites in each category. The entries that

received unanimous votes became the

Editors’ Choice Nominees and were posted

online for public voting, where you chose

the winners. The entries that received the

next highest numbers of public votes are

recognized here as Honorable Mentions.

(Note that the number of Nominees and

Honorable Mentions varies based on the

number of entries in each category.) View all

of the Editors’ Choice Nominees online at

www.woodcarvingillustrated.com.

We’ll feature some of these projects in

upcoming issues—please let us know which

ones you’d like to see. And, finally, our

sincere thanks to everyone who participated,

whether by entering or voting. You made this

year amazing.

The Seeder

by Gerard Fuentes of Rigaud, Que., Canada

Rose Jewelry Box

by Nairi Safaryan of Glendale, Calif.

Chadwick Ram/

Stone Sheep

by John N. Blank

of Jackson, Mich.

Spijkerjack

by Dirk Jepma

of Leeuwarden, Friesland,

Netherlands

Humpback Whales—

Mother & Calf

by David Lazzaro

of Nahant, Mass.

Red Zone

by Vern Hesketh

of Cathedral City, Calif.

Converse All Star Hi Top

by Kimberly Howard-Johnson

of San Diego, Calif.

Strike Up the Band

by Ed Pribyl

of Round Lake, Ill.

Humpback Whale

by Stanley Stary

of Cleveland, Ohio

Realistic Carvings

Sweep Contest

In a rare single-category sweep, all three winners of the

Realistic category were also voted the Best in

Contest. Readers chose Josh Guge’s

Startled

at the Swamp

(right) as first in the Realistic

category—and the Best in Contest winner.

The two Realistic category Honorable

Mentions,

The Seeder

by Gerard Fuentes

(left) and

Rose Jewelry Box

by Nairi

Safaryan (below), are also the Second

and Third Best in Show, respectively.

Congratulations to all three Best in

Contest and Realistic category winners.

Editors’ Choice Nominees