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Aspen stick
Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 4:36 pm
by cv3
I do a walking stick a raffle that an organization I be long to dose every year. This one is Aspen. The wood is soft and pretty easy to work with if you do not try to make to deep a cuts. Doing detail you have to make a lot of small cuts, it will flake if you don’t. It is a fun project.
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Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 5:18 pm
by mickyd
Another masterpiece CV!! Looks great. I don't think I have the artistic skills to do this however but I will try at some point in the future. Curious to know if you also paint pictures or are you strictly 3-D?
Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 5:20 pm
by tom_k/mo
Beautiful work there.
Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 5:42 pm
by cv3
mickyd wrote: Curious to know if you also paint pictures or are you strictly 3-D?
No. The funny thing is I can not draw at all. I have learned how to mark for scale and I do very rough sketches on the work with chalk or a pencil. Then just start carving. As you have seen I do paint some of my carvings. Mostly the cypress knees santa's and the fish.
Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 5:59 pm
by Gene Howe
That stick and the donation are really neat, CV.
It should go for a very pretty penny.
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 3:30 am
by dewey2me1mothyme
cv3 wrote:No. The funny thing is I can not draw at all. I have learned how to mark for scale and I do very rough sketches on the work with chalk or a pencil. Then just start carving. As you have seen I do paint some of my carvings. Mostly the cypress knees santa's and the fish.
i find it amazing that you say you can't draw but yet bring out such detail in your work. Great job CV3
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 1:58 pm
by paulrussell
I am envious. I'm a technician and engineer at heart, not an artist. That is art.
Added some detail.
Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 6:11 pm
by cv3
Started adding detail today.
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Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 6:54 pm
by JPG
cv3 wrote:Started adding detail today.
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Indeed, the beauty IS in the details!