Netsuke statues grown large

It was really a good idea to come up with thuya and acacia wood. As I wrote it beforehand there are a great number of unfinished statues that Istvan made long ago and these statues are waiting for their future fate. Around the end of the year in October or in November he usually lines his uncompleted works up and he happily remarks the abundance of new statues he is going to have within a few weeks. There is only a few days work left on these statues indeed meaning one accomplished statue almost every day. I visited him this week-end and it was a gold opportunity to let him finish his uncompleted thuya and acacia statues. He also waxed the statues and I took pictures right away. The pictures are available on his web-site: http://www.teglasistvan.blogspot.com/. The thuya statue is actually a larger netsuke illustrating a playful little figure sitting on the ground with his feet in his mouth. It reminds me of my son who is just at the age when sucking his own tiptoes is just for the sake of play. But a statue has many faces. Unbelievable to say but the picture titled Generalissimo was taken of the same statue. The other netsuke was made of the famous wood piece called Ebony Angel. After a few chisel marks a face was evolved and the statue was ready. There was also the Faun, another acacia statue, waiting for to be finished. However nothing else happened that we concluded that the statue is ready this way. He might work on it more but it has so many forms in its virgin state that it would be a pity to remove these forms from it.