15
Apr
THE BORDEAUX STYLE
Troy Bordeaux is a carving friend who has been carving for many years with a personal passion to grow his creative skills through the hobby of woodcarving.
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27
Dec
CREATIVE PHOTOSHOP
Don Worley is a fellow wood carver and a good friend who also likes to experiment with Photo Shop in creating unique works of art. Here are two examples where he used photos of the Wood Bee Carver to demonstrate his creative genius. I am deeply honored that he made me look so good. Thanks Don Worley for your gift and friendship. To learn more about this process click on this link ~ https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-premiere-elements.html ~ these were done on ChatGPT free version.
Here is more of Don Worley’s play in PhohoShop ~
Troy Bordeaux is a carving friend whose passion for carving guides him to create a unique style with clean, crisp and sharp detail of creative art. The photographic gallery will showcase some of his carving in an ever-growing variety of creative expressions. The opening photo above is a collection of some of his carvings covering the last five years with his most recent in front of older carvings.
The unique style of carvings created by Mark Akers are eye catching in their crispness of detail and whimsical signature as is evident in viewing the photo gallery below. “A picture is worth a thousand words,” so let each picture speak to you by studying each with an observant eye of creativity.
24
Mar
IVAN ~ the CARVER
A good carving friend who brings a smile not only through his outgoing personality but also through his unique carving creations that mixes a little humor into his characters is being showcased in this photo display.
23
Feb
STEPHENSON COLLECTION
Don Stephenson is a gifted artist with a creative mind and a generous spirit who recently drew carving ideas on the back of a mailing envelope. Four of these drawings became the inspiration for carving projects which were gifted by back to Don along with a Linus and Snoopy carving for his wife Peg.
31
Jan
ART ON AN ENVELOPE
The drawing above was done by Don Stephenson on the back of a plastic bubble mailing envelope. Artist Don Stephenson of the Dayton, Ohio Carving Club amazes his friends and neighbors alike because whoever admires his creativity becomes an instant friend. He is very generous with his drawing art often giving a drawing to an admiring stranger as well as his many friends. He has always drawn since a young boy and benefited from art instructors who expanded his creative horizon. One of his jobs in earlier days was as an illustrator for the Yellow Pages telephone directory. His artistic creativity became very active to be able to respond to a wide variety of illustration subjects as needed for the directory. At carving meeting someone with mention an idea or a theme of a particular subject like a dragon, a skunk or a fish and Don will draw a themed illustration in the blink of an eye. Whenever he mails me some of his drawings of carving ideas he also draws on the outside of the envelopes. Early on in our friendship I gave him the moniker “The Idea Monster.”
Jim Hecker of Elk River, MN and I have been carving friends since 2009 when we met at the International Woodcarver Congress in Iowa and have shared a common bond of friendship through carving activities ever since. He has mastered his own style of Flat Plane carving into what I call the “Hecker Style.”