[Woodcarver] Daniel Green Chat

[Merrilee Johnson]

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Hi Donna!
    Thanks for sending the info on Daniel Green!  His work is beautiful!  I 
think I looked at all of his pictures.  Wow!
Merrilee


>

>Hi Joe, et al;

>I was fortunate way back in 86 or so to take a course from Daniel Green in 

>both pastels and oil painting of portraits. He is a fantastic artist. It is 

>astonishing to me to realize that he was just 52 when I worked with him- 9 

>years younger than I am now- and I thought he was an old man then. He is 

>still teaching, but it looks like he doesn't travel around like he used to. 

>http://www.danielgreeneartist.com/index.html  After the classes with him my 

>work improved 110%.

>Donna Menke

>http://www.woodworks-by-donna.com

>Author: The Ultimate Band Saw Box Book

>

>----- Original Message ----

>From: Joe Dillett <jdillett at thecarvingshop.net>

>To: [Woodcarver] <woodcarver at six.pairlist.net>

>Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 7:48:27 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

>645 E. LaSalle St. Suite 3

>Somonauk, IL. 60552

>

>(815) 498-9290 phone

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