Carving skin tone

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Re: toothy Terrence

That is awesome!!!

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Re: gnome

He is great.. A gnome is on my list to do, hope I can do one that good.

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Re: Carving skin tone

some great suggestions which I will try on my next.. Thanks for the input.

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Re: First 2016 project

I really like that.

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Re: Carving skin tone

Thanks Merle, do you mix any oil paint with your BLO or just go natural BLO? I have seen where some mix.

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I have experimented with different colors of paint to try and get that correct skin tone, but just have not been happy with the results. So I am curious what some of you all may use or do to try and get that realistic skin tone color with paints.

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Re: Barflys

those are just too cool.

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Re: hares and hounds

I really like the hare. Awesome.

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Re: Lt. Dan

thanks for all the comments. Yeah, I was waiting for someone to comment on the name and rank. I know those are captains bars, but name came from my Son, so the name stands. I am not trying to duplicate Lynn, but I have learned so much from his website.. I hope one day...

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What a busy winter with work and all, have not had much time for carving. I did complete this one finally of the last month when time permitted. Idea for this one came from Lynn Doughty\'s web page. He had a bust of a character similar to this, so here was my touch to it.

It is little...

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Re: Flag for New Eagle

That is very nice.. It looks awesome!

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Re: Cowboys and dog

Thank you all for your kind words. So what is a study pole? Today I did order one of Marv Kaisersatt books. I got a chuckle out of one of the comments from Claude, the character looked surprised.. That is funny, once I looked at it some more. Let me ask you all...

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Just registered today, only been carving about a year.. I still have a lot of improvements to make. I just can\\\'t get eyes, I have watched some you tube vids on it, if anyone has some ideas or tips to help improve, please let me know. Here are a couple that I have done, at least my favorites.....

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I just wanted to say hello to all. I started carving about a year ago.. Still learning a lot, very addictive. I am still trying to find my own style, I am still following patterns from books, getting to where I put my own twist on things. I still struggle with eyes big time, but getting there I...