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/ I found this one on one of our carving sites and it is full of so many colorful fish carvings and also some show stopper ones.
http://www.thenfcg.com/ Just wanted to pass it on for your viewing. There is so much information on fish carving and some real informative Newsletters. Reference photos and web links to other helpful sites. If you are a fish carver you will want to browse this site and its many avenues. Check out some of the instruction areas too. Below is another nice site to see. http://www.fernridgecarving.com/gallery,%20fish.html Charlie We have a special friend here in NW Arkansas in Janet. Just noticed she has a how to instruction blog on her little hitty dolls. http://www.janetcordell.com/3/previous/2.html http://www.janetcordell.com/updatesblog.html Several of us have benefitted over the last 10 years to take some instruction at the old War Eagle Seminar and at her cabin. Always helpful and willing to keep us on track. Many times we have talked to her about an idea and she helped get patterns together. My RR Track sculpture was with her help. She has a class March 24-28 in Springfield MO at the Ozark woodcarving seminar there. If you are new to carving or an advanced carver Janet can help you get a step up. Here is an interesting video of the 2013 Show in Dayton, I picked this up from Lynn's web site. http://www.daytoncarvers.com/aiw2011/aiw2011c.mov I think he may have taken it. Nice show of the things that go on there. A must for next year. November 8th 2013 this year. Here is another good one. http://daytoncarvers.com/movies.html Be sure and watch both of them. Here is an opportunity to see a lot of pictures from the Cajun completion. A lot of decoys but keep going down the page and you will see some songbirds too. Also some miniature boats.
http://371004202582369312.weebly.com/2013-cajun-heritage-festival.html I enjoyed seeing all the techniques used to finish the decoys. Hope you enjoyed this Louisiana tour of the decoy carving world. 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. |
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