Posted by: woodbeecarver in Noggins
SCRAPPER – Bobble Heads are whimsical carvings done only with a knife using scraps of wood, thus the name “SCRAPPER”. The Old Carvers Law states: “Leave no wood uncarved,” so Scrappers developed as a way to utilize small scraps of wood as a novelty and fun carving. There is no practical use for these Scrapper Bobble Heads other than they provide a way to practice carving faces while using scrap pieces of wood that this Old Carver finds is hard to throw away. It is like the fellow who bought a new boomerang and could not throw his old one away. Read the rest of this entry »
Charles and Doris Leverett hosted for a second time a three day Whittle-Carving class in their Northeast Alabama carving studio on July 16,17 and 18, 2010. Eight students in the photograph are left to right, Hugh O’Neal, Terry Vance, Bob Zenoble, David Wilson and back row left to right: Murrel McCurley, Harry Rutland, Don Mertz, Charlie Leverett and Greg Douglas.
The three day class emphasised learning to “think inside the block” by learning to see a carving project within a block of basswood. Several exercises were introduced to begin the process of “seeing inside the block,” and opening the block to expose the carving subject. Read the rest of this entry »
A FACE-EYE STUDY has been put in a pdf format and can be viewed and printed by going to “BEE HIVE” under the left hand column and click on “FACE-EYE STUDY”.
This is one of the educational projects used in the classes I teach about Whittle-Carving or carving only with a knife. Read the rest of this entry »
A WHITTLE DOODLE is a carving done only with a knife that is in essence “doodling with a knife.” Like doodling with a pencil, doodling with a knife is a free hand and free minded endeavor that does not have an overall plan. Doodling is what comes as one is doodling. Even though several Whittle Doodles have been done over the years and some themes are repeated, yet no two are exactly alike. To carve only with a knife is a challenge in and of itself that brings a special kind of satisfaction when the end result turns out better than imagined. Each Whittle Doodle, like any carving project, is a new journey that brings its own surprises and serendipity discoveries of imagination. Read the rest of this entry »
Charles and Doris Leverett hosted for a second time a three day Whittle-Carving class in their Northeast Alabama carving studio on July 16,17 and 18, 2010. Eight students in the photograph are left to right, Hugh O’Neal, Terry Vance, Bob Zenoble, David Wilson and back row left to right: Murrel McCurley, Harry Rutland, Don Mertz, Charlie Leverett and Greg Douglas.
