http://www.vermontraptoracademy.com/floyd-scholz
Here is his new Falcon carving, part of his new book. Hoping to take one of his classes someday. Everyone says you learn so much there and have a lot of fun too.
I just found this new site for Floyd Scholz
http://www.vermontraptoracademy.com/floyd-scholz Here is his new Falcon carving, part of his new book. Hoping to take one of his classes someday. Everyone says you learn so much there and have a lot of fun too.
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Over 14 years ago I carved my first bird, a chickadee. Used a manzanita branch for the perch. I was pleased with my first. Then we moved this last year and the branch broke into several pieces. Thought about just throwing it away, but it was my first. So I saved it.
I bought some Bondo for another project and decided to give it a try. First I made an armature of copper electric wire with the insolation removed. Added some smaller cooper wire used for hanging pictures. Soldered it to strengthen it. Then mixed up some Bondo. Interesting experiment, sets really fast and you have to work really fast. But just smear it over the wires and bam, you have a rough looking branch. Smooth with regular sandpaper, it is fairly soft and sands easily. DO NOT breath the dust, use a mask. Fairly impressed with my first attempt at using Bondo. Sanded it and painted it with acrylic washes. Remounted my poor little chickadee. Charlie Airbrushing, now that is a miss conception. I use acrylic paint thinned to almost skimmed milk. I found that I needed to increase air pressure to 65 pounds. After several attempts to painting a soft pattern I moved on to test painting on white paper. Then tried to do the dual trigger air brush technique to paint the scissortail. No luck here. Not coordinated I guess. Spent two days fighting the process. Then back to spraying a pattern on white card stock and holding that pattern and moving the bird into the spray pattern. Some success. Not what I really wanted. Cleaned the airbrush out again and tried to thin the paint some more. Too transparent then. Scrap that and back to the paper to bird technique. I think what the problem is that the pigment of the acrylic that I am using is not milled enough. I have a selection of paints to be used in airbrushing, but they are not the right colors. When this paint is brushed on white card you cannot see pigment as grains of color, maybe it is milled finer. Going to experiment some more. But the drawback is that I am not good at taking several colors and mixing to the color needed. I end up with mud color. I have 5 birds ready for final detailing color. Yes done with paint brush, had enough of air today.
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