Blake McFarland, a retired minor league pitcher in the Toronto Blue Jays organization, is an artist that uses wood and epoxy as his medium. 

In a recent piece, McFarland carved a whale out of #epoxy and #wood. In the description of the carved whale, McFarland said he used various woodworking tools to power carve the whale out of 11.5 gallons of epoxy resin. “This is one of my most unique sculptures to date and one that features a tremendous amount of woodworking and epoxy resin working,” he wrote. 

Commissioned by the @beacontopeka, a recently restored events venue, the sculpture took more than seven weeks to complete and was made specifically for the Founders Room at the Beacon in Topeka, Ks.

Measuring 33 in. by 18 in., it consists of zebrawood, padauk, mahogany, curly maple, yellowheart, walnut, ambrosia maple and 11.5 Gallons of @masepoxies Deep Pour X. McFarland used @besseytools_northamerica clamps for glue-up, and a @arbortechie turbo hand plane.