Woodcarving Illustrated Issue 71 Summer 2015 E-Book

Editors of Woodcarving Illustrated

• Herausgeber: Fox Chapel Publishing
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Serie: Woodcarving Illustrated Magazine
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Seitenzahl: 149

Beschreibung

FEATURESUnder the SeaBy Kathleen RyanBill Johnson dives into chip carving to create enchanting marine lifeThe Doane Woodcarving ExperienceBy Kathleen RyanJoin this workshop to sharpen your carving skills, meet the top instructors in the country, and make friends.Carving Family FunBy Kathleen RyanLinda Langenberg Curtis's carving lessons are a legacy of love and learning for the next generationTECHNIQUESDesigning Celtic KnotworkBy Dave WesternUse simple techniques to design elaborate knotwork patternsCarving a Female FaceBy Dave StetsonSoftness and symmetry are key for creating an attractive female caricaturePROJECTSWild RoseBy Charley PhillipsBring the beauty of a summer meadow inside with this floral carvingPirate Captain CaricatureBy Larry GladuCorner-cut a blank to bring this scurvy dog to lifeCarving a CowgirlBy Kristina BrownPractice – or teach – caricature by making this cute cowpoke and her stick ponyWhittling an EagleBy Greg YoungGrab a chunk of wood and a knife to carve this majestic eagleLady LibertyBy Vernon DePauwLet freedom ring with this patriotic folk-art decorationChip Carving a Reef FishBy Bill JohnsonPower carve this realistically shaped fish and embellish it with chip carvingPower Carving a Saw Whet OwlBy Hugh ParksLearn the basics of carving a realistic bird with this owl in a simple poseDancing JesterBy Floyd RhadiganConvey movement and action with the pose of this comedic caricaturePATTERNSChip Carving a FlowerBy Wayne BartonBreak out of the mold with this organic ornament

Leseprobe

Learn Chip Carving from Wayne Barton

Charismatic

Caricatures:

■

Dancing Jester

■

Pirate Captain

■

Cowgirl Cutie

DISPLAY UNTIL AUGUST 24, 2015

SUMMER 2015

ISSUE 71

Power

Carving

Floral

Designs

Design

Your Own

Celtic Patterns

Fast way to realistic

results like this owl

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Learn to

whittle a

magestic

eagle from a

rough blank.

FEATURES

16

Under the Sea

By

Kathleen Ryan

Bill Johnson dives into chip carving

to create enchanting marine life

55

The Doane Woodcarving

Experience

By

Kathleen Ryan

Join this workshop to sharpen

your carving skills, meet the

top instructors in the country,

and make friends

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Carving Family Fun

By

Kathleen Ryan

Linda Langenberg Curtis’s carving

lessons are a legacy of love and

learning for the next generation

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ISSUE 71

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Designing Celtic Knotwork

By

Dave Western

Use simple techniques to design

elaborate knotwork patterns

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Carving a Female Face

By

Dave Stetson

Softness and symmetry are

key for creating an attractive

female caricature

TECHNIQUES

in this

issue

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PROJECTS

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Wild Rose

By

Charley Phillips

Bring the beauty of a summer

meadow inside with this floral carving

26

Pirate Captain Caricature

By

Larry Gladu

Corner-cut a blank to bring

this scurvy dog to life

30

Carving Found Wooden Objects

By

Bob Mason

Turn antique tools, spools, and kitchen

items into one-of-a-kind carvings

38

Carving a Cowgirl

By

Kristina Brown

Practice—or teach—caricatures

by making this cute cowpoke

and her stick pony

44

Whittling an Eagle

By

Greg Young

Grab a chunk of wood and a

knife to carve this majestic eagle

48

Lady Liberty

By

Vernon DePauw

Let freedom ring with this

patriotic folk-art decoration

4

Editor’s Note

6

From Our Mailbag

8

Reader Gallery

10

News and Notes

12

Tips and Techniques

88

Product Review

DEPARTMENTS

90

Calendar of Events

94

Coming Features

95

Ad Directory

& Classified Ads

96

Woodchips

64

Chip Carving a Reef Fish

By

Bill Johnson

Power carve this realistically shaped

fish and embellish it with chip carving

73

Power Carving a Saw Whet Owl

By

Hugh Parks

Learn the basics of carving a realistic

bird with this owl in a simple pose

80

Dancing Jester

By

Floyd Rhadigan

Convey movement and action with

the pose of this comedic caricature

43

Chip Carving a Flower

By

Wayne Barton

Break out of the mold with

this organic ornament

PATTERNS

16

This triggerfish is one of Bill Johnson’s

elaborately chip carved sea creatures.

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editor’s

note

Identification Statement:

Woodcarving Illustrated

vol. 19, no. 2

(Summer 2015) (ISSN#1096-2816) is published four times a year in the

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Protect your respiratory system, hearing, vision, and the rest of your body

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Read manuals supplied with your tools.

Be aware most accidents occur when you are tired or distracted.

And when in doubt, seek advice from

professionals on how to keep your tools sharp and maintained.

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Seeing the Possibilities

The number of smiling mugs on the Contents page

might explain why I’m calling this the friendly faces

issue. There are cowgirls, a pirate, a chef, a jester, and

a flag-flying Lady Liberty.

Even within the theme of the-people-in-your-

neighborhood, however, you will find a variety of

techniques and challenges. Kristina Brown’s cowgirls

are sweet and simple, while Dave Stetson strives for

enough realism to make an attractive caricature. The pirate

and chef are both portraits—one a relief and one carved on a

corner—while Lady Liberty and the jester are two very different

full figures.

I tried to maintain that balance of complexity and

simplicity throughout the issue. Quick projects like Greg

Young’s whittled eagle are offset by more detailed endeavors,

like Bill Johnson’s chip-carved reef fish. I know that people

with a wide variety of interests and abilities read the magazine,

and I try to have something for everyone.

Even within the projects, you can customize both the level

of intricacy and the design itself. Some of the projects, like

the wild rose and the Celtic knotwork spoons, are designed

specifically so you can use the techniques to customize the

carving. We include photos of a couple of American variations

on Lady Liberty, but she could just as easily be Canadian,

French, or Italian. Put the chef on a cutting board instead of a

rolling pin, or choose a different image altogether—maybe the

pirate. Change the hair and skin tones on the cowgirl. In fact,

sketch all-new hair and turn it into a cowboy.

The point is that what you see isn’t necessarily what you

get. You can make the projects as presented, customize them a

little, or use them as a jumping-off point for ideas of your own.

Don’t like love spoons? Carve the knotwork on ornaments,

pendants, or earrings. Chip-carve Wayne Barton’s flower into

the top of a box, or make a set and use them for coasters.

I always want our issues to contain at least one project you

want to make, but I also hope you see the possibilities in the

projects that don’t interest you as much. Granted, nothing is

going to turn a caricature ornament into a realistic bust, but it’s

surprisingly easy to turn plaque into a box lid or a 3-D carving

into a flat ornament.

I’d love to see photos of the projects you make from this

issue, whether they look like the authors’ or are inspired by

their ideas. And, as always, if there are specific projects you

would like to see us publish, please send a note to me.

I welcome your feedback.

Mindy Kinsey

[email protected]

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FOX HUNT

Toni Bradfute of Spokane, Wash., and Mike

Graham of Elephant Butte, N.M., are the

winners drawn from the correct entries

received for

WCI

Spring 2015 (Issue 70). The fox

was hiding in the photo of the Rick Jensen bark

house on page 12.

Find the fox in this issue, and contact us with

the page number and location. Two readers

randomly selected from all correct replies

will receive a $25 Fox Chapel Publishing gift

certificate. Entries must be received by June 30,

2015, to be eligible.

NOTE: With his feet on the

“ground,” the contest fox faces left (other foxes in

WCI

don’t count).

Send your entry to:

Woodcarving Illustrated

, Attn: Find the Fox,

1970 Broad Street, East Petersburg, Pa. 17520,

or enter online under the contests link at

www.woodcarvingillustrated.com.

from our

mailbag

Thoughts on

WCI 70

The Spring issue of

Woodcarving

Illustrated

(issue 70) elicited an unusual

number of responses from our readers.

Here are a few of the many positive

and negative reviews of the issue. In

particular, several readers requested

more challenging projects. We do

have a number of well-known carvers

working on more advanced articles for

us; look for them in upcoming issues.

We always appreciate hearing from our

readers. Tell us what you’re looking for

in

Woodcarving Illustrated

at editors@

woodcarvingillustrated.com.

I look forward to receiving

your magazine. In the past,

my sole disappointment has

been the quarterly publication;

unfortunately, this last issue

was a major disappointment.

The content was pretty poor

and unchallenging. I’d like to

encourage you to go a few years

back and reread some of the past

issues and look at their level

of challenge.

With the loss of

Carving

Magazine

after just renewing for

two years, the drop in content

quality of

Woodcarving Illustrated

is a major disappointment.

I participated in a Facebook

Woodcarvers page discussion

earlier today and my first thought,

especially after getting burned

by

Carving

, is not to renew. But it

wouldn’t be fair for me to do that

without expressing my view (which

many seem to share) first and

giving you a chance to fix it. We

really don’t want to lose the last

decent publication on woodcarving

but only if you can reverse the

trend. Like Wilford Brimley used

to say in the TV commercial

‘Dance with the one that brung ya.’

Dave Hinkley

Lees Summit, Mo.

As a reasonably newbie to

woodcarving, I found this edition

excellent. Sometimes, more

detailed articles can be quite scary

to those new to carving.

Thank you.

Heidi Gilmour

Via Facebook

My only complaint [about the

Spring issue] is that there are two

articles in the same issue about

carving food. With only four issues

a year, every page is precious.

Maybe it would have been better to

hold one article ’til a later issue and

publish something more varied.

Other than that, I enjoyed it.

In the early days of the

magazine, there used to be a “poor

man’s carving tool” contest. Folks

would send in plans for homemade

carving tools and fixtures. I’d love

to see something like that again

sometime. It was fun and useful.

Russell Stingley

Via Facebook

I would like to see some northwest

Haida carvings and some Mexican

American carvings. Give us a

challenge to aspire to beyond

caricatures, as challenging as those

sometimes are.

Dave Olson

Via Facebook

I would love to see carvings by

Dennis Stallings and Mirosław

Czeladka. Both of these guys

have unique styles and excellent

painting. Jeff Phares’s works and

input is also always a major plus.

Though I have suggestions, I will

still buy the magazine; Fox Chapel

Publishing has the best format for

learning. The layout combined

with pictures and text is awesome

for all your books. I worked as a

trainer for a big software company

and your books are on the same

level of awesome. I only buy

your titles.

Richard Sanchez

Via Facebook

SET IT

STRAIGHT

On page 65 of

Woodcarving Illustrated

Spring 2015 (Issue 70), we inadvertently

swapped some numbers in the contact

information for Montzka Woodworking.

You can reach the company at 5294 250th

Street, Forest Lake, MN 55025; 651-464-5847;

www.montzkawoodworking.com.

reader

gallery

Hand With Rose

Out of Water

Phil Nedeau

of Fort

Meyers, Fla., has been

woodworking for

40 years, but this is

his first carving. He

carved the hand from

mahogany, the rose

from copper beach,

the stem from teak,

the leaves from maple,

and the thorns

from ebony.

Waking Man

John Carriere

of Darwin, N. T.,

Australia, carved this waking man

out of 3"-thick African mahogany.

The carving measures 2 

' from

foot to foot and took 155 hours

to carve. He was inspired by

Ray Gonzalez’s carving

Waking Man

.

Horse Head

of London

Glenn Durlacher

of

Queensbury, N.Y.,

carved this 14' horse

head from a white pine

log. He was inspired to

carve this piece after

seeing Nic Fiddian

Green’s famous horse

head sculptures.

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Let’s see your

latest work!

Send good, clear photos

(professional color prints

or 300dpi resolution digital

images) and 100 words

describing your project to:

Reader Gallery, Woodcarving

Illustrated, 1970 Broad

St., East Petersburg, PA

17520, or e-mail glasmyre@

foxchapelpublishing.com.

Musky Crush

Charles Weiss

of Toronto,

Ont., Canada, carved this life-

sized musky head to imitate

a 50lb musky that measures

50" to 60" long. The head is

16" from the front edge of the

jaw to the back edge of the

gill cover. Charles carved the

head out of 11 1"-thick layers

of white pine boards that he

glued together. He painted the

fish with acrylics, and glued

more than 120 tiny teeth in

the roof of the mouth and

a couple dozen teeth in the

bottom jaw.

Musky Crush

won

an honorable mention at the

Southern Ontario Scientific

Illustrator Art show.

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Fox Guarding the Henhouse

Jeff Kleineick

of Lexington, N.C.,

saw Scott Gustafson’s painting

The

Fox Guarding the Henhouse

and

knew he had to carve it. The fox is

11" tall, and the base is 12" tall. Jeff

had fun carving the hint of a smile

on the fox’s face and depicting the

hens’ worried faces.

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news and

notes

In February, the Ridgway Chainsaw Carvers

Rendezvous celebrated its “sweet 16” by gathering more

than 180 carvers in Ridgway, Pa. The event was free to

the public and attracted an estimated 25,000 spectators.

The 2015 Rendezvous comprised artists from 30 states

and seven countries.

Each professional carver who attended chose his or

her favorite log and created a carving over the week-long

event. One of the best parts of the event was watching

Ridgway Chainsaw Carvers Rendezvous

By Isaac McDaniel

Chad Gainey carved

this whimsical

nighttime scene

with a chainsaw.

the carvings emerge. Some carvers came with an idea

for their finished product; others waited to let the grain,

knots, and twists in the wood determine what it would

become. At the end of the week there was a wide variety

of finished pieces: birds, bears, hillbillies, wolves,

turtles, benches, and more! All of the finished works

were auctioned on Saturday.

“We have something truly special here in Ridgway,”

said Liz Boni, the director of Appalachian Arts Studio

and organizer of the event. “The event started as a

gathering of a few friends looking for something to do

one winter and has grown into the world-class event

that is it today. We are so thankful for everyone who

worked throughout the years to not only make the

Rendezvous grow but also to contribute to the art of

chainsaw carving.”

Check out www.chainsawrendezvous.org

for more information.

(Continued on page 12)

The longtime president of the

National Wood Carvers Association

(NWCA), Ed Gallenstein of

Cincinnati, Ohio, died in April;

he was 92. He was the president

of NWCA for more than 40 years

and the editor of

Chip Chats

, the

organization’s newsletter, for more

than 50 years.

Remembering

Ed Gallenstein

Ed built the membership of the

NWCA from 500 up to more than

50,000 at its peak. Almost 400 local

carving clubs look to the NWCA

for help in promoting membership,

increasing show attendance,

and general networking. Ed’s

organization and newsletter united

carvers, gave them an outlet

to showcase their talents, and

connected them as a single group.

Ed even established an NWCA-

sponsored scholarship at the Miami

University of Oxford, OH, to

benefit an art student interested in

sculpture/woodcarving.

Under Ed’s tutelage, the

Chip Chats

evolved from a

mimeographed newsletter to a “real

magazine.“ In the early 1970s the

magazine was printed and folded

by a commercial printer and then

mailed to Ed’s house, where his

wife and four children pitched

in to collate, staple, trim, and

pack each issue.

Chip Chats

was

headquartered in the Gallenstein

home for 23 years before they

rented office space in 1988.

In 1976, Ed introduced an

events calendar to

Chip Chats

so

carvers could find out when and

where events were happening and

who to contact for information.

This monumental task was the first

of its kind and connected carvers

in a way that was not previously

possible.

“Ed was a one-man Internet

for carvers for many, many years,“

said the publisher of

Woodcarving

Illustrated

, Alan Giagnocavo. “He

helped many carving writers and

businesses—including my own—get

started.“

According to chip carver

Wayne Barton, who wrote a regular

column for

Chip Chats

, “The

woodcarving community in the

United States and the rest of the

world owes Ed Gallenstein a huge

debt of gratitude for all this gentle

giant accomplished. Ed touched the

heart of every woodcarver with a

gracious hand and a pleasant smile,

and brought us all together with

his dedication to woodcarvers and

woodcarving. If you met him, you

were a friend forever. Thanks Ed,

for who you were and all the love

you shared.“

www.woodcarvingillustrated.com

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tips and

techniques

Sharpening

High-Speed

Steel Bits

TOP

TIP

✔

If you notice your

high-speed steel bits

getting dull, simply

run the bit in reverse

on a sharpening stone, a diamond

hone, or sandpaper. This is like honing

a gouge or a knife, not like regrinding

a blade; it doesn’t change the cutting