[Woodcarver] Re:Feeling a bit guilty about jumping in with a question,

[Gordon Paterson]

Whoops, shouldn't read so fast....on second thought Lloyd, just mount an 
acrylic disc and mark the concentric decreasing in size circles with a thin 
line felt pen.
Waves could be indicated in the base of the carving by large gouge strokes 
and not making a clean cut at the end of the stroke, after all it is a 
caricature ..right?

Gordon Paterson
Dowling, Ont.

At 03:06 PM 6/8/04 -0400, you wrote:
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>when I have been mostly lurking big time, but since I only seem to get
>to a carving about every 6 months, I really don't have much to offer, so
>I hope noone minds.
>
>I am doing a carving for a good friend who is really enjoys flying and
>fishing, so I am doing a carving of fishing on the fly.
>
>It has my friend in a sopwith camel, with a fishing line running from it
>into the water.  I have two challenges, and wondering if anyone can
>point to some suggestions.  One, how to carve the water surface, and the
>other is how to create the appearance of the propeller in motion.
>
>I have the first part of the carving done, and if you want to get an
>idea of what I am talking about you can see it here
>http://www.angelfire.com/ny/lskeoch/prototype.html
>
>The black squiggly line is the fishing line going from the plane into
>the water.  The base with the words some many fish, so little time will
>be the water.  I'm wondering how to texture the water...not looking for
>big waves or anything, and I plan to have a kind of wake running away
>from where the line enters the water.  If anyone has any suggestions, or
>can point me to some examples, I sure would appreciate it.
>
>On the question of the propeller, I have carved a couple of mockups, one
>being just a propeller, the other being a complete circle, where I have
>carved the propeller into it, and then kinda faded it around to the
>other side of the prop with the idea of using shading of the paint to
>suggest motion.  The problem with that is it blocks out the front of the
>plane.  Another thought I had was to perhaps try to glue the basic prop
>onto an acrylic disc, and use a little paint to hint at a spinning prop
>but still be able to see through it a bit.  Anyone tried that, or have
>any thoughts.
>
>--
>Lloyd Skeoch
>Markham, Ontario
>mailto:lskeoch at onramp.ca
>http://www.angelfire.com/ny/lskeoch/index.html