[Woodcarver] new projects

[Bill Smith]

what I would suggest is to first get the carving
shapped and then move into the details, I personally
then move into doing the hair as the last step when i
carve as I change the level of the hair so that its
got a wave to it if u look at your own personal hair,
u will see that it just not flat it has different
levels in it..
Bill
--- maricha <maricha at ozemail.com.au> wrote:

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> > hi dave .... what a delightful email.
>   what a lot of wonderful things are coming out of
> this list and as you mentioned a few i will not go
> into it. 
>   there is no doubt in my mind that you are entering
> a great journey, being a draughtsman you have a
> splendid background, actually i have a few students
> with similar back grounds to you, and after many
> hours of explaining the left and right side of the
> brain, they are really coming up with the most
> delightful works in carving and sculpture and
> jewelrey.
> 
>   the secret is to use the skill you have with
> tools, but to tell your unartistic side of the
> brain.... to shut up and not interfere with the
> artistic side of the brain. this is explain in the
> book joe talks about but also it is much in use
> teaching in school for schitzophrenics dislectic and
> lateral thinkers.  it really is not a big deal it is
> just plain common sense when you apply it, because
> we have learnt so much in our life that we have a
> warehouse of information inside us and this dictates
> and censors what we do and becomes our worst critic,
> so we have to kindly tell the side that does not
> know anything about art to give the artistic side a
> fair go and you will see the marvelous discoveries
> you make.
> 
> 
>   dave each step at the time, and you have already
> reached a milestone , my apprentice jeff was exactly
> the same, could not visualize in the round, yet now
> i make him touch a round ball, a flower, a leaf etc.
> and make him close his other side of the brain, and
> wow he is indeed improving tremendously like you
> are.  congratulations with all the wonderful
> carvings you have done.  do not think of your
> confidence or any other stumbling points, just take
> each step at a time, and ask and discuss and work
> hard.
>   i recommend you also read a book called THE
> ARTISTS WAY   by Julia Cameron, which is a wonderful
> book to give back to your artist/inner self the self
> truth and confidence that is there.
> 
>   different levels are hard to grasp but if you take
> a good look at a stair case you will see the steps
> going up or down, drawing it is difficult at first,
> so just plainly get three or four bits of clay, wood
> and make rectangles of the same size put one on top
> of the other with about one inch space to glue them
> and three inches to step on.  the different actual
> graduations will give you the exact location of
> where to put your router for the different layers
> you want.  
> 
>   Now for my question(s) for Bill or whomever: 
> 
>   Do you model and carve the whole image with
> regular gouges before defining the hair or do you
> use the hair defining tool to do the shaping? 
>   i am sure you will get different answers to this
> question, but i usually carve hair in clumpbs of
> three, use three different size gouges, largest one
> first to create a wavy effect, then a medium u gouge
> to create deeper crevices and a small u gouge to
> give the shadows and deep recess to create dark and
> shadows of the hair.
> 
> 
>   If you shape before defining hair do you leave
> extra thickness to carve the hair?  yes leave enough
> material to give you the bulk of the hair.
>   The ears seem to me that they should be deeper
> than the plan calls for. Is that a misprint?  may be
> the ears are deeper, or could not be made deeper
> because of lack of timber but by creating certain
> cuts you could give the illusion of depth.
>   How can the nose, eyes and forehead be at the same
> level? they are not, look at your face with several
> mirrors and you will see the different graduations.
>   when you are doing a face think of the elements
> that make it, the eyes are shaped like a football,
> so you must shape them like a foot ball. the nose is
> more like a pyramid, so when you are carving think
> in shapes, think of cylinders, pyramids, cubes,
> umbrellas etc. this will help to work out carving
> the round.  do not attempt very difficult things. i
> suggest you first carve one feature at a time, get
> to know it as it really is, quite a magnificent
> shape.  forinstance the eye, its shape is like a
> football, but it has the eyelid, the pupil and the
> tear glad.  work one step at a time and you will
> surprise yourself. hope this helps a bit. am sure
> joe and ivan and bill will give you much more input
> than i can.
> 
>   cheers
>   maricha>
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