[Woodcarver] Whatyadoing?

[djsamyrs]

Hi Joe,
My 2nd daughter is graduating from high school next Sunday. I am carving a 
little graduate for her as I did for her older sister. I need to get in gear 
tho. I am about halfway finished!!! Dan Myers
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Dillett" <jdillett at thecarvingshop.net>
To: "[Woodcarver]" <woodcarver at six.pairlist.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 7:48 AM
Subject: [Woodcarver] Whatyadoing?



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> Knock knock. It sure is quiet on the List.

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> What's everyone doing? I know that Jan's carving and Big Dog is working on 

> the new catalogue. What's the rest of you doing?

>

> I'm getting ready for a Pastel Portrait class here at my shop all day 

> today and tomorrow. D. Anne Jones is coming from Indiana to teach the 

> class. There are 11 of us, including my apprentices, who are taking the 

> class.

>

> I believe if one becomes good at seeing and good at drawing their 

> woodcarving potential in limitless. They will be able to create their own 

> patterns and better visualize the finished product before they begin. The 

> ability to see and draw in the foundation of all visual art. Anyone can 

> learn to draw.

>

> Anne's work is awesome ( http://www.ufo-tech.com/anne ). Her technique is 

> that she doesn't do any measuring or mapping out the space. She begins 

> with one single feature, such as the left eye, completing it before she 

> slowly expands to the next small adjacent detail. She completes each 

> detail before she expands to the next adjacent detail.

>

> I've always drawn by first mapping out the area, lightly sketching in 

> where the features go and then gradually finish a grouping of features all 

> together. I thought that I would try Anne's technique. It was a little 

> scary at first not knowing exactly where the features would fall, only 

> working on the one feature until it was finished before doing the next 1/2 

> inch square next to it. I was not in my comfort zone. However the results 

> were amazing. I've never had such good luck at capturing the character. 

> Anne works off of photos. I think that her technique works much better 

> from photos then live models. I'm excited about this class to see if it 

> makes as big a difference in my apprentices drawing ability as it did in 

> mine. Today we're going to work with just charcoal and tomorrow we'll be 

> working in pastels.

>

> Monday I pack and get ready to leave early Tuesday morning for the Country 

> Thunder USA show in Texas. 

> http://www.countrythunder.com/ct_2003/assets/07web/texas/maintexas.html

> I'll be carving a bed for the Touch Of The West ( 

> http://www.touchofthewest.com/ ) during the 4-day show. I've doubled the 

> prices on my mantels and plaques because I'm splitting the sale with the 

> store. I don't know how close we'll be to the main stage but when we're 

> working the Country Thunder show in Wisconsin we are the closest tent to 

> the stage. It is a 4-day fun party with a new act on stage every 2 hours. 

> It's a nice free week-long vacation for Sharon and I that could be 

> profitable.

>

> What's happening with you all?

>

> Joe Dillett

> The Carving Shop

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