[Woodcarver] Maura's classical carving class

[Marcia Berkall]

Hi, Maura,

Personally,  I would opt to do the acanthus leaf design.  It's just 
something I've wanted to do and haven't had the opportunity to do 
it.  And I like it! :)  As a teacher myself, especially with students 
with a range of experience and skill levels, I would want to go 
through the entire process, from design, to transferring, to 
carving.  I think there is something valuable to learn in every 
step.  You are right...not many people do teach this, so I am glad to 
see you doing it.  Good luck...wish I could be there!
Marcia (aka Mush)




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

>From: Linehan718 at aol.com

>To: abkinnaman at earthlink.net

>Sent: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 7:56 pm

>Subject: Re: [Woodcarver] What Happened??--a new topic---help

>

>All righty I'll open up a discussion if you'd all like to help me 

>out a bit.  This year will be my first year of formal teaching at a 

>woodcarving roundup.  This is basically a free class but I can 

>charge for the wood blank.  What I would like to teach is an 

>introduction to classical carving which really isn't being offered 

>much at any of the roundups.  Classical carving, just to clarify 

>things, means some tool specific carving.  This means minimizing the 

>use of the stop cut and emphasizing either a veiner or v-tool to cut 

>around and outline, chisels and shallow gouges for grounding out and 

>gouges for doing rounding, the sweep of the gouges matching the 

>curve of the carving, rather than whittling away with any tool till 

>you get what shape you want. No power tools in this class.  I will 

>be touching on the history of carving and an explanation of the 

>sheffield numbering system and some advanced carving techniques, but 

>imparting t hat knowledge during the course of the day rather than 

>giving a boring lecture.  People in my class will range from 

>beginners to intermediates.  I want to do a classical style relief 

>carving which can be finished by most in roughly 6 hours of 

>carving.  My original ideas were to do either, grapes and leaves, an 

>acanthus leaf design or a traditional shell carving.

>

>Now my topics for discussion are, if you were to come and take my 

>class.... first which design would you be more interested in doing 

>and why.   Would you rather the design already be on the wood or 

>should I make my students transfer the pattern lines 

>themselves?  Would you find this class interesting?  Any else you 

>can think of would be great and all suggestions will help alot.  Thanks

>


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