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Kern Chester, the youngest of seven children, grew up on his father’s livestock farm in northeast Arkansas. There were always lots of horses, mules, cattle, hogs, chickens, and sometimes sheep and goats.
Kern can’t remember a time when he was not trying to make something. With his pocket knife, he would whittle out objects like the head of a claw hammer or carve a man’s head out of a sandstone rock. As he could afford it, he began to acquire power tools to help him carve and shape wood. shaping wood, Kern now models and sculpts in wax and clay, mostly animals to be cast in bronze. Knowing anatomy as Kern does is a big help in sculpting realistic figures and animals
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