<html>
<body>
Hi, Maura,<br><br>
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!<br>
Marcia (aka Mush)<br><br>
<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Linehan718@aol.com<br>
To: abkinnaman@earthlink.net<br>
Sent: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 7:56 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [Woodcarver] What Happened??--a new topic---help<br><br>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>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. <br>
<br>
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<br>
<br>
</font></blockquote>
<x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
<font size=2 color="#800080">See Marcia's wood carvings
at:
<br>
<a href="http://whittlinsnwood.com/" eudora="autourl">
http://whittlinsnwood.com<br>
</a>Blog:
<a href="http://cahvah.wordpress.com/" eudora="autourl">
http://cahvah.wordpress.com/<br>
</a>*****<br>
Affordable Web Page
Design:
<br>
<a href="http://artwebmaine.com/" eudora="autourl">
http://artwebmaine.com</a> <br>
*****
<br>
Get 20% Off CoffeeCup Web Design Software<br>
Use this code when you checkout: 226STS <br>
<a href="http://www.getcoffeecup.com/" eudora="autourl">
www.getcoffeecup.com</a> <br>
</font></body>
</html>