[Woodcarver] New bark carving pictures posted

[Donna Menke]

Alex- very nice cross- never seen bark done like that- like it.

You do great noses. 
Donna Menke
http://www.woodworks-by-donna.com 
Author: The Ultimate Band Saw Box Book
New DVD: Basic Band Saw Box Making: The Octagonal Box
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrJvML1h-s0




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From: Alex Bisso <albisso at bresnan.net>
To: woodcarver at carverscompanion.com
Sent: Thu, December 30, 2010 9:54:06 PM
Subject: [Woodcarver] New bark carving pictures posted

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In case anyone might be interested in viewing them I posted 3 new bark carving 
photos in the “Bark Carvings” album on PictureTrail.  One is a Santa that I sold 
to a friend who gave it to her mother for Christmas, another is a Santa that I 
gave to my older sister for Christmas, and the third is a dogwood cross that I 
gave to my younger sister for Christmas.  The Santa’s were colored with acrylic 
paints.  The dogwood cross carving had an experimental finish that was 
contributed to by input from the woodcarvers e-list.  First I tried adding color 
to the flowers, leaves and rays with pastel pencils (my own idea).  It looked 
great until I sprayed on a coat of lacquer and most of the color became washed 
out and darkened and it did not look good.  I salvaged it by applying the 
“sandwiching” technique explained on the list by Ivan Whillock.  This involved 
adding color with artist oils over the lacquer and then wiping off the oil paint 
just leaving a stain of the color behind.  This proved to be a tedious process 
which I did to the leaves, flowers and cross only.  After a night in my furnace 
room I then followed up with 2 more coats of Deft lacquer spray and finally 
applied a final wax finish and buffed that to a nice sheen.  The result was very 
attractive and my sister said that it “took her breath away” so I was pleased 
with it in the end.  The link to my picturetrail site is:  
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/listing/user/abisso
The new photos should be the first 3 in the Bark Carvings album and I made the 
dogwood cross carving the cover photo for that album.  Thanks again to all who 
shared their thoughts about adding color to bark carvings.  Any comments are 
welcomed.
ALEX


      
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