Wooden Jewelry Box – El Toro

Wooden jewelry box

Creating this wooden jewelry box with the title El Toro is just one step in a longer process.

This creative process is the combination of :
wanting to depict the appearance of an animal,
to use shovel handles,
and use cabinet legs in combination with a box.

Various locations of the cabinet leg(s) on the box can give the cabinet leg(s) a totally different meaning.

Positioning one leg at the front of the box makes it look like a neck.

But if you imagine 2 cabinet legs pointing backwards, left and right on top of the box it will depict a different animal with horns.  With the right painted pattern it could be a goat. So there are numerous possibilities.

Cabinet legs at the sides of the box

With El Toro, I wanted to create a decorative wooden box for precious keepsakes , looking like an angry bull ready to attack.

I used the picture of a bull to determine the right distance between the nose, the eyes and the horns.

To create the illusion that he is bending his head down, the box is higher at the back then at the front.

Different accents in eyes give different expressions. The expression of this bulls eyes are fierce full.

The hoof of his left front leg is placed backwords and gilded. Like he is scraping his hoof with power and impatience.

The 2 gilded balls under his belly represent his testicles, his testosterone. All together a creature to be careful with.

The colour of the inside of this wooden jewelry box is painted blood red. Is it his inwardly boiling blood or the red cloth of the toreador that is challenging him ?

wooden jewelry box:

Total:                                           Box:
Width: 55 cm                              Width: 34 cm
Height: 117 cm                          Height: 33 cm
Depth: 61 cm                             Depth: 26,5 cm

Materials wooden jewelry box “El Toro”

wood 10 mm and 18 mm
2 cabinet legs
4 shovel handles long 100 cm
2 wooden balls 40 mm
1 wooden ball 25 mm
piece of bleu cord.