Woodcarving Illustrated Issue 78 Spring 2017 E-Book

Editors of Woodcarving Illustrated

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

Seitenzahl: 128

Beschreibung

The Spring 2017 issue of the world's best how-to magazine for woodcarvers is packed with patterns, techniques, tips, and projects for all skill levels. Meet the father/daughter team of Nairi & Larisa Safaryan, and see how they use an indescribable technique to create utterly unique art. Randall Stoner, a lifelong fan of fantasy novels, captures his favorite tales in wood. Ralph Beam shows how to build your own carver's frame that leaves both hands free for carving. A clever geometrical design and careful carving turn Bill Johnson's flat plate into a chip-carved optical illusion. Other projects include a textured panda cub, a folk art chess set, a comical elephant hanging hook, and a keepsake rose made from scrap wood. Discover new techniques for lino print blocks, low-relief portraits, coloring book patterns, and much more!

Leseprobe

PATTERNS

73

Building a Carver’s Frame

By

Ralph Beam

Shop-made holding fixture allows

you to carve anything outdoors

80

Perpetual Calendar

By

Paul Meisel and Andrew DiPace

Customize this project with chip- and

relief-carved embellishments

TECHNIQUES

46

Creative Projects from

Coloring Books

By

Mindy Kinsey

The coloring fad has a side benefit: the

designs are great for woodworking, too!

50

Carving a Dragonfly Print Block

By

Andy Hibberd

Use this relief carving for

printmaking or decoration

76

Practice Carving Faces

By

Dennis Stallings

Practice two expressions on

one face with this funny figure

86

Carving a Low-Relief Portrait

By

Graham Thompson

Learn how to use a photo as

a pattern to carve a portrait

63

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Delicate Artistry

By

Kathleen Ryan

Nairi Safaryan uses an indescribable

technique to create utterly unique art

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High Relief, High Fantasy

A lifelong fan of fantasy novels, Randy

Stoner tries to capture the tales in wood

FEATURES

in this

issue

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PROJECTS

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Bonus Patterns

Choose alternate shield

patterns for the Chess Set

(pg. 34), print the pattern

for a hippocampus pastry

crimper (pg. 54), get more

info on another version of the

Perpetual Calendar (pg. 80),

and download coloring pages

for crafts and carving (pg. 46).

Check out

Woodcarving

Illustrated

on Facebook

Follow us on Twitter,

twitter.com/woodcarving

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A Chip-Carved Optical Illusion

By

Bill Johnson

A clever geometrical design and careful

carving make this flat plate look 3-D

28

Carving a Panda Cub

By

Leah Goddard

Use a woodburner to add fast and

easy texture to this cute critter

34

Folk-Art Chess Set

By

Vernon DePauw

Customize the colors and details

to create a chess set you’ll be

proud to play and display

54

Pastry Crimper

By

Mike Bloomquist

Decorative and functional kitchen

tool will help you make heavenly pies

60

Noah’s Ark Relief Scene

By

Lori Dickie

Skip roughing out by using a precut

wooden blank to carve this silly scene

63

Finding Beauty in Scrap Wood

By

Barbara Millikan

Turn a long, narrow blank

into a keepsake rose

68

Elephant Hanging Hook

By

Bob Hershey

Comical carving is also

a functional hanger

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More

Woodchips

Meet an artist who carves

realistic airplanes (pg. 96).

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60

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Editor’s Note

6

Letters to the Editor

8

Reader Gallery

14

Tips and Techniques

92

Calendar of Events

94

Coming Features

95

Ad Directory &

Classified Ads

96

Woodchips

DEPTS.

COVER

DIY Carver’s

Vise ...

73

Defy the Eye ...

18

“Game of Thrones”

Fan Chess Set ...

34

Litho Print

Blocks ...

50

Low-Relief

Portraits ...

86

Coloring Book

Patterns ...

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Try It, You Might Like It

I come from a long line of crafters—we knit, crochet,

embroider, sew, etc. We enjoy the activities for their own

sakes as well as to have whatever object we’re producing,

but we’re also somewhat compelled to “keep our hands

busy.” Some people eat popcorn while they watch movies;

I color, and have since I was a kid.*

Coloring is relaxing and satisfyingly artsy without

being difficult, expensive, time consuming, or messy. When

coloring for adults became popular a couple of years ago, it made

sense to me. And as our parent company, Fox Chapel Publishing,

got involved in the trend and I saw a whole lot more coloring

books, something else made sense, too: coloring books make good

woodworking patterns.

To demonstrate some of the possibilities, we worked with a

team of woodworkers to make “Creative Projects from Coloring

Books” (page 46). I hope it will help you see the woodworking

potential in coloring books and serve as a springboard for making

your own projects. (I know most of you don’t scroll, but I included

the projects here for additional inspiration.) Of course you don’t

have to use Fox coloring books, although we have lots of good ones

and we’ve posted a few pages on our website to get you started.

Not interested in playing with patterns? No problem—this

issue has lots more to offer. We’ll teach you how to turn a photo

into a relief-carved portrait (page 86), and how to turn a relief-

carved block into a print (page 50). Keep busy all winter carving

a complete chess set (page 34). (It doesn’t take long to make each

piece, but you need quite a few of them.) Plan ahead for summer

and make a carving frame that will let you work outside (page 73).

Carve our panda cub, and then pull out your woodburner and

practice making fur texture (page 28). Start with the body and the

black paint will hide your mistakes as you learn the technique. By

the time you do the white areas, you’ll be an expert.

Finally, I’d like to draw your attention to our Reader Gallery,

which starts on page 8. We are always looking for artwork to

feature. Once you try one of the techniques in this issue, snap a

photo and send it in for consideration. If you need help taking good

photos, visit our website and type “photo tips” in the search box for

advice. We’d love to hear from you!

Mindy Kinsey

[email protected]

*OK, I eat popcorn, too. I particularly like

it with cheddar cheese powder.

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FOX HUNT

Jim Tharp of Clackamas, Ore., and Tommy Anderson of

Quitman, La., are the winners drawn from the correct

entries received for

WCI

Fall 2016 (Issue 76). The fox was

in the Barrie Casement feature article, in the lower right

corner of the cathedral doors photo on page 59.

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 April 6, 2017, 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

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Fox, 1970 Broad Street, East Petersburg, Pa. 17520, or enter

online under the contests link at www.

woodcarvingillustrated.com.

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We’d love to hear from you! Send

your thoughts and comments

about our magazine and

woodcarving in general to:

Letters, Woodcarving Illustrated,

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PA 17520, or e-mail editors@

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letters

to the editor

The River Bend Carving Club of

Racine, Wis., decided to carve

Noah’s Ark along with a Nativity

set shortly before

Woodcarving

Illustrated

Winter 2016 (Issue

74) was published. We were

delighted when we received the

issue. The club liked the look of

Betty Padden’s ark and used the pattern for our project. We used different Noah

and animal patterns. We were looking for an annual project that would be suitable

for carvers of all levels and this did the trick. One person carved the ark to keep the

look consistent. We unveiled the project at our annual picnic in August and offered

it for sale at the annual Walk in the Woods Art Fair. The River Bend Carving Club

has offered carving classes for the past two years at the River Bend Nature Center on

the first and third Saturdays of the month from 9:30am to 11:30am for prospective

carvers 10 years of age and older. Some of the students have become members and

participated in this year’s ark project.

Bob Puder

President of the River Bend Carving Club

Racine, Wis.

Members of the River Bend

Carving Club of Racine, Wis.,

display their carvings of

Noah’s ark and the Nativity at

the club’s annual art fair.

A Carver Recognized

I enjoyed the article “Learning to Carve

Soap” by Barbara Millikan in

Woodcarving

Illustrated

Summer/Fall 2016 (Issue 76),

especially since you noted that the tools used

at your Open House came courtesy of the

Desert Woodcarving Show. We added soap

carving to give kids something to do at the

show and were surprised by how many adults

sat down to try it.

I showed your article to Jim Sublet, a

retired engineer who designed and built all

of the tools for our show. I can’t tell you how

happy he was to see his tools featured in

your magazine. Jim has made 100 sets of the

wooden tools—that’s 300 tools!

I didn’t tell Jim, but I planned right then

to let you know who made the tools in hopes

that you could make mention of Jim’s efforts.

I wanted to send this photograph in hopes

that you could recognize Jim in some way—

believe me, it would make his day!

Jerry Chapman

Via email

Jim Sublet displays

a handmade set of

soap carving tools.

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reader

gallery

Spencer Tinkham

Norfolk, Va.

The sight of trash around the waterways of the

Chesapeake Bay has always irritated Spencer

Tinkham. He decided to pick up as much as he

could find, recycling the plastics but keeping

the wood and metal. Spencer then combined

his passions for woodcarving and conservation

to create sculptures from the found materials.

Spencer carves the bodies of his herons from

wood he took from a collapsed house and makes

the necks and heads from tree branches. He

adds legs made from industrial welding rods,

bases cut from an old pine fishing pier plank, and

cast lead feet made from a handcarved mold.

Spenser painted the herons with oils that he

mixed from scratch in oyster shells using pigment

powders.

See more of Spencer’s work at www.

tinkhamdecoysandfolkart.com.

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reader

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Patrick Mullally

New Glasgow, N.S.

Patrick Mullally’s white

birch wood spirits are

approximately 2" by

14" (51mm by 35.6cm).

He adds a little paint to

the eyes to make them

sparkle with life.

View

more of Patrick’s work at

www.irishcarving.com.

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Harry Thompson

Doylestown, Pa.

Harry Thompson

handcarved this

bouquet, 12" by 16"

(30.5cm by 40.6cm),

from one piece of

wood. He finished it

with boiled linseed

oil, mineral spirits, and

shellac.

Contact Harry at

harry-thompson

@live.com

.

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Clayton Johnson

Albert Lea, Minn.

Clayton Johnson carves

doors and drawer fronts

from 1" (25mm)-thick

basswood boards using

a jigsaw and hand tools.

View more of Clayton’s

work at sites.google.com/

site/clayton707/.

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Brent Helmick

Marina, Calif.

Brent Helmick based his

inlaid carvings of sand

dollars on sketches by a

19th century biologist

and carved them from

assorted varieties

of wood, including

cocobolo, teak, elm, and

holly.

Contact Brent at

albahelmick@att.

net.

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Dave Speer

Austin, Texas

Dave Speer’s life-size

kingfisher is 10" (25.4cm)

tall, carved from a single

piece of basswood, and

finished with oil paint.

See more of Dave’s work

at www.etsy.com/shop/

DaveSpeerWildlifeArt.

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Ming-yu Li

Ming-yu Li created

Forget, Never Forget

to

express sadness. He

made the 13¾

" by 16

"

by 63" (35cm by 42cm

by 16m) sculpture from

pine and elm.

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Kenan Schultz

Baytown, Texas

Kenan Schultz carved

this 6" (15.2cm)-tall

horse from pecan

wood he harvested

after Hurricane

Ike blew through

Houston.

Visit Kenan at

www.kenanschultz.com.

Share 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 editors@

woodcarvingillustrated.com.

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Submit and win!

Send your favorite tip to

Woodcarving Illustrated

, 1970 Broad St., East

Petersburg, Pa., 17520, or e-mail editors@

woodcarvingillustrated.com. The Top Tip in

each issue wins a $25 Fox Chapel Gift Card.

Make organizing your home or office more fun by

turning carvings into card or photo holders. I adapted

patterns from

Carving Flat-Plane Caricatures

by

Harley Refsal and

Carving Little Guys

by Keith

Randich, and then drilled holes through their hands

so they can each hold a paperclip. I use the carvings to

display business cards, place cards, and photos, but you

could also carve a chef to make a recipe card holder for

your kitchen.

Making a Card Holder

Choose a pattern that appeals to you. My small figure

is 2" (51mm) tall and holds a 2" (51mm)-long paperclip,

and the large figure is 4 

" (12.1cm) tall and holds a

4" (10.2cm)-long paperclip. Be sure the arms are the

same length and the shirtsleeves and hands are in

line. Carve until the hands are large mitten shapes.

Then, drill the holes by hand using a pin vise and a

3⁄64

"

(1.2mm) bit for a small clip or a 3⁄

32

"

(2.5mm) bit for

Card Holder

with

Personality

tips and

techniques

a larger clip. Start drilling on the outside of one hand,

close to the shirtsleeve, and drill slowly, taking care

not to split the hand. Continue across the gap between

the hands and through the second hand so the holes

are properly aligned. Finish shaping the planes of the