Below are some pictures of the 3 classes that were held over 2 days. As you can see, everyone had a great time.
Last weekend we celebrated another great annual show. 35th one with some great carvings. I have posted a few pictures here for you to critique. Gerald put together a stellar show and 2 day carving class. I am sure there will be more to come. This year's show was held in a vacant store in the Frisco Mall Shopping Center, Rogers on Walnut St. Below are some pictures of the 3 classes that were held over 2 days. As you can see, everyone had a great time. The next set of pictures are from the show. Now was that a great show or what???
Here is an opportunity to carve one of Janet's dolls in a step by step blog. http://www.janetcordell.com/3/previous/7.html It looks really simple. (;~) You can take a 2 day class with Janet's sister, Adina in September at our Show and Competition. http://woodcarversofnorthwestarkansas.weebly.com/ For those interested in some fine relief carvings you do not need to go further that Jerry's house to see some really nice work. Check out his web site for some eye opening work. http://jerrymifflinwoodcarving.com/ Be sure and look at all the display photos and you can get some idea of how he works. Pour your self another cup of coffee and enjoy. Well here is my water hazard! This is done in 3 pours to get the 1/2" thick edge. Note that I made a dam from Drafting tape. I tried the blue tape in the past but it reacted with the glue in the tape and leaked the acrylic. Regular tan masking tape seems to work best. The acrylic I used is the standard one available at Hobby Lobby. See my technicques tab for more information there. Nothing really complicated here, just read the instructions on the can and go. I did this one over 2 days to get a good cure, but you could do it in the same day. . You know I just realized this morning that carving is really the Journey and not the compleation of a project. In the process of carving the Red Tail Hawk, I compleated several other projects over the 3 years, but the most fun was deciding how I wanted to carve the hawk and creat the habitat. I expermented on several ideas and 3 years ago I settled on this layout. Sigh!!!... now down to the work. After making a few deviations, I accomplished the pose I wanted. Then how to display it. As you see it here, it looks just Ok to me, but it is missing something. The idea of including maybe a few Trout Lilies, a yellow star shaped flower along the log. I have always liked orchids and at one time had over 300 in a green house. Maybe..., just maybe, yellow lady slippers, just maybe they would look good to the right side of the carving in frunt of the log, but how to carve or create them. 5 is the number I think I need, you know 3 is not enough and 10 to many, maybe another 20 or 40 hours, but it is the journey! First I thought I would do the paper sculpting process, no I did not like the final result, not smooth enough. Maybe metal, no too dificult to get the rounded shape, tupelo, OK, but how to hollow out the inside. I think I have that worked out, now to the carving. I plan on doing 3 of the slipper parts together, power carve the shape of the outside, cut the group in 1/2, hollow out the pocket, glue the 3 back together, do the final shaping. Make the twist part from brass and the leaves from brass too. The stem will be copper or brass rod. We will see how this progresses. To be continued. Made a trip to Heber Springs, AR this weekend and ran across this bronze sculpture near the Holiday Inn. There were 2 there and I was impressed with the detail of both. Sorry but the pictures do not do justice to the fine detail of the knife and medicine bag bead work. They were over 15 feet tall near life size. What an impressive carving this would make. As you can see it was real dry over there, looked like August, pastures were already very brown and lawns were burned up. The pond water level looked like it was down at least 3 feet. Would be even more impressive if it was full reflectGoing to be a real hot summer it looks like. Hope yopu enjoy these. Charlie This has been a really long project, but I now have the detailing done, eyes set and now ready for the paint booth. I have redrawn the patterns several times and am now pretty satisfied with the final ones for my seminar class. As you carve from your patterns that you create or buy, you see things and shapes not apparent when you create the patterns. Wing placement, feather fluff as compaired to hard feather or bumps are an never ending challenge. Another angle to show some of the detail. I plan on doing the bee and the dragon fly and attaching by a fine wire passed under the wings into the birds mouth. But this is some time down the way. Hope you enjoy my slow progress. Here are some real good pictures from the World competition.
http://401829231934780891.weebly.com/index.html Greatest Show on earth, Well almost!Show was a fantastic success. Larger attendance than the last show. Some real special carvings and people. Excellent weather and a great place to have it. Good lighting and easy access. Had a great time and everyone enjoyed themselves. I have posted some of the pictures, when I get more time I will post more and give a list of some of the first place entrys. If you missed this show you really missed out on seeing some excellent carving. Some all the way from Washington state. Be sure and click on photo for larger image and caption at bottom. Click on again and it will advance to next picture in this set.
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