[Woodcarver] new carving photos

[Bill Smith]

Great work alex..

how long u been carving n like your mountain man.

Bill
--- Alex Bisso <albisso at bresnan.net> wrote:

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> I posted some photos of a Mountain Man bust that I
> recently carved.  With
> the exception of the necklace details and some other
> minor refinements the
> carving was done in a class with Jeff Phares at the
> Western and Wildlife
> carving retreat in Bulah, WY a short time back.  The
> basswood was very light
> so once home I used the finishing technique taught
> by Jeff at the class.
> For the basswood, this began with flooding the wood
> with an analine dye
> (caramel).  After this was dried, it got a couple of
> coats of diluted (with
> mineral spirits to linseed oil consistency) Bartley
> gel varnish and then the
> color was added with artists oil paints using the
> diluted gel varnish
> mixture as a medium for the paints and working while
> the varnish carving was
> still wet.  I was very please with the results.  You
> can view the photos at
> my picturetrail site at:
>
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=583547&uid=467059
> 
> Alex
> 
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