Christmas Cards

[William]

Re: santa holding forest animals

Hi Rick,

Some roughouts have a santa holding things, I'm not sure if this is what you found but here are a few roughout sites.

Moore Wood & Roughouts - Santas - Skinny
GNB Sears Woodcarvings - Santa-Snowmen Rou...

[William]

Re: Shed

It sounds like andy is using a translator, messages come out that way many times and yet again I'm really old and not up on the new youth lingo.)

[William]

Re: Sea turtle: Major projects

Wow Di, that is really nice

[William]

Re: Keoma front cover WCI

Congrats Keoma,
I just got my copy and now it's on the top of my to-do this morning.

[William]

Re: Cedar mallard I'm working on

Very nice carving Eddie with great use of the sapwood for the bill and tail. I really like that red cedar, it has an almost total red heart, most red cedar I get has a lot of light bands in the center unless it's been down a long time so the red blends...

[William]

Re: Christmas Cards

Thanks Arthur and Claude, they were fun to do so I've started a few more, I like the fireplace setup the best for the 3D effect.

[William]

My Nephew gave me some canvas for Christmas so I made a few Cards for next year
using things that I had and the on line cards at WalMart, real easy.


1st Card
The Background is Oil on 14" x 18" Canvas with photo cutout's of me and the fire,
Dog...

[William]

Re: Eyes Eyes my Kingdom for The Eyes

I still struggle with eyes.
After roughing out the head I do the eyes first and always have a little extra wood on the back of the head and neck just incase I mess them up.

[William]

Re: The good ole days

Quietly listening to the radio while we had our evening meal and we would all answer together when we heard Orson Welles say "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?"----------------------------- The Shadow knows!!!!

Love that mem...

[William]

Re: Something a little different

Hey Randy,


lol...I thought of that too, so I bought all I needed to last me a year or so before I made the post. I use them when I need to give my hands a break or turn out a gift really fast. This carving is one of the unfinished blanks...

[William]

Re: Nesting Heron finished.

Nice carving Josef, I really like the wood and Burl combo.

[William]

Re: Something a little different

Thanks Guy's

Hi Tom, I like the looks of those knots too, these pine blanks were very popular in the 70's and 80's but back then they were painted solid and very few were stained except for the one's Tom Taber was doing and is still doing,...

[William]

Re: Something a little different

Thanks Terry and Slow,
The hard part is to stop at your "Max.bid"...... many times I have lost a bid by $0.50.
I have all I need for now but I just can't let one get by me for $0.99 with no bid's, I just can't help myself.

[William]

For those of you that are like me and love carving but have severe RA and find it difficult to carve sometimes but still want to do it, this may be an option for you, or anyone that wants to do something a little different.

I have bought Pine Blanks on Ebay and some of them are ready for...

[William]

Re: Gerald Sears Roughout "The Boxer"

Roughout's are fun you did a nice job with that one, the color is great.

Bill
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