[Woodcarver] Thank you Susan Irish

[Sylda]

Susan, your great -- you can be sure I'll go over these sites carefully and
I know I'll learn lots.  Thanks.
Sylda

On 10/13/04 12:31 PM, "Classic Carving Patterns" <irish at carvingpatterns.com>
wrote:

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> David,
> 
> Mike and I are so delighted that everything worked out well for you at
> your club!!!  As I was working on that particular pattern for the
> Sailboat Tutorial I knew it was perfect for a levels project.  Which, of
> course, being a woman not of few words at all, lead into the long
> step-by-step we have posted to our site.  Being strictly a relief carver
> I think in levels any more both in my carving and in my patterns.  So
> again, we are glad that we were able to add a little to the Yorarvers
> Wood Carving Club's meeting.
> 
> If you are interested in the levels techniques you might like to stop by
> the site as see:
> 
> Simplifying a Pattern into Basic Areas, page 1
> http://www.carvingpatterns.com/projects/macaw.htm
>  has a free Macaw Pattern
> Simplifying a Pattern into Basic Areas, page 2
> http://www.carvingpatterns.com/projects/levels.htm
>  has a free Canoe Bear Pattern
> Sailboat, Basic Carving Techniques Tutorial
> http://www.carvingpatterns.com/sailboat/sail-introduction.htm
>  has the free Sailboat Pattern to which you referred.
> 
> 
> As a note to others on the digest that are members of carving clubs,
> senior citizen's wood groups, or wood carving newsletters, Mike and I
> often share our work through you to the wood carving community.  If you
> are interested in using one of our free patterns or some of our articles
> on our site please drop us an e-mail to request permission to use it at
> your club meeting.  Let us know what you want to use, where it will
> appear and something about your particular group's interests so we can
> contact you about it. Please remember our website and patterns are
> copyrighted, so you need to ask first!
> 
> Oh ... David ... PS ... If some of your students get finished projects
> of the sailboat done I would love to see them!!!!  Do the Yorkarvers
> have a web site where you could post them???
> 
> Susan
> 
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> Susan,
> 
> I agreed to lead a 1 hr seminar for our club on relief carving.  I made
> 2 landscape
> carvings from patterns from your Landscape book previously and am
> currently working
> on another one from your book.  In preparation for last Sunday's
> seminar, I reviewed
> your on-line tutorial on relief carving using the sailboat picture.  I
> used that
> picture, copied it for each club member and had them color in the 4
> distinct carving
> levels.  It was a great eye opener for most of them as they never
> thought of your
> method of defining the various levels in a relief carving and then
> numbering each
> sub-layer.
> 
> Thank you for your step by step tutorial as it gave me lots of
> information to give to
> the club.  I also passed out small blanks and had them try different
> forms of texturing
> by using a gouge / V-tool and rocking it back and forth while pushing it
> forward.
> 
> You really saved the day for me and it gave my club a basic idea on what
> relief carving
> is.  Since your web site is on the picture I handed out, I hope some of
> them will
> visit it.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Dave Andreychek
> member of YORKARVERS wood carving club in in York, PA.
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