Archive for the ‘Carving Projects’ Category

18
Mar

VINTAGE VIEWS ~ I

   Posted by: woodbeecarver

Vintage Views are nostalgic views of early carving projects of a carving journey begun around 1975 as a budding hobby rekindling childhood memories of whittling as a playful activity of creative exercises of imagination.  Many of these early projects were done in a casual schedule of spontaneous inspiration in a slow methodical process of learning while doing by shaping a block of wood with a knife. Many have not been seen in public other than at “show and tell” at carving club meetings and reflect early attempts of doing the best one could do at the time with the level of skill and design reflective of growing with experience.

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15
Mar

HALF PINT ~ Quaker Meeting Couple

   Posted by: woodbeecarver

   

      

Quaker Meeting Couple was originally carved with six inch tall figures in a one inch scale finished with a polychrome of oil paint in multiple colors.  Half Pint version is three inch tall in a half inch scale. Half Pint carvings are finished with a monochrome of one color of Raw Sienna artist oil paint to emphasize that texture is color.

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8
Mar

SHAPE UP: Lefty and Doolittle

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25
Jan

HALF PINT BAND

   Posted by: woodbeecarver

The HALF PINT BAND is an interpretation of an earlier Hillbilly Band carved in the style of WHITTLE FOLK carved in the mid 80’s.  Both were carved out of basswood block three inches tall and an inch square. The Half Pint interpretation however was carved in the proportional scale of a half inch equals a foot. In comparing a Whittle Folk photo from the mid 1980’s with the Half Pint Band of 2024 the differences are evident while still being similar.

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23
Jan

MOUNTAIN MAN Redux

   Posted by: woodbeecarver

The Mountain Man holding a walking staff is a repeat of a carving project done in 2015 which can be viewed by clicking on “Mountain Man Twice” While there are similarities to the original carving project, yet it is not an exact copy since it is an interpretation of the original.  Every carving project is always an “interpretation of imagination” as each new carving takes on a personality of its own as its design develops in the carving process.

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27
Dec

CARVING an OLD-WORLD SANTA

   Posted by: woodbeecarver

Wood carving is always a partnership of imagination, skilled experience, challenge and whimsey to create an interpretation of a chosen subject.  It is the combined work of the head, heart and hands of the artist to create a fresh, contemporary and alive inanimate subject of art.

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6
Nov

HALF PINT HOBOS

   Posted by: woodbeecarver

 

 

HALF PINTS are three inch tall figures carved with the half inch scale equals one foot.  A six inch tall carving of a hobo would be to the scale of an inch equals a foot. These five Half Pint Hobos in this posting followed the basic design of previous hobos carved in the one inch scale. Half Pints are also characterized with having one monochrome coloring to emphasis that texture is color as seen in the facet surface texture of the carving process. Miniature carvings are typically categorized as no larger than fitting in a two inch cube.  Half Pints are slightly larger at three inch tall on a one inch square base making them just a little above being a true miniature.

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2
Oct

BUNKHOUSE BUCKAROOS

   Posted by: woodbeecarver

 

It has been said that “clothes make the man” and in the case of carving a western figure it is the outfit that immediately identifies the carving as that of a cowboy, cowpoke or buckaroo.  In this case where two cowpokes are being presented they are called “Bunkhouse Buckaroos” to add a little flare to their presentation.  Each were Whittle-Carved using only knives to shape a six-inch-tall by an inch and half square block of basswood.

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