[Woodcarver] Caricature idea

[egamage]

I like that idea.  I'd read your article before, but now I'm motivated to try it.  
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  My vote would be for oil based, non hardening clay over wire armatures (echoing Mush).  On WOM Matt has a crude story board I did for a project earlier this year.  It might be enough to point you in that direction.

  http://carverscompanion.com/Ezine/Vol9Issue5/MBloomquist/MBloomquist7.html



  . and JMTCW, but if you found white pine to be frustrating, construction grade 2x4s are going to be down right brutal.  I think maybe you got an inferior piece of white pine. or a mis-identified piece.  Any white pine I've had the pleasure to carve has been just that, a pleasure. 



  Keep on Carvin'

  -Mike B.->



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  What I was thinking of was construction 2 x 4 laminated together just for cutting out a model.   That costs nothing compared to basswood.   There is no way I could carve out a caricature in white pine, because the grain steers my knife too much and pieces do chip off.  I have seen some pretty good carvings out of white pine but I suspect the carvers are experienced enough to design the carving to work with the material, even if they do it without really thinking about it.



  Anyway, it's definetly not inferior, it's just good for different things.

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    Hi 

    You make it sound like white pine is inferior to basswood. I would much rather carve in Eastern White Pine than Basswood and I like the look of Pine better than the blandness of Basswood. I will admit that for caricatures I use basswood as it is better at holding detail in small scale. I usually am not satisfied with a piece until I have done 2 or more so starting with pine (if it is cheaper) to get overall proportions, style and form seems like an idea. Course clay works well also and is reusable. Depends on what you hope to get out of creating that "1st piece". Your approach and tools may be different for the detail work in pine than in basswood.



    Jim O'Dea





    Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 20:52:32 -0500
    From: "egamage" <egamage at friendlycity.net>
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    Another thought I had was to make my first (and maybe 2nd......) cutout from white pine to see how it comes out before I start hacking on a good piece of basswood.  Has anyone tired something like that?  
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