On Saturday, May 15, five students survived the rigors of learning to Whittle-Carve using only a knife. Pictured in the photograph left to right are Curt McCarthy, Dean Jauss, Ron Jauss, Steve Cotton and Terry Bell. During this one day class the students learned the merits of “slicing with the cutting edge,”using notch cuts and three cut triangle chip cuts to open up a block of wood and the agony and ecstasy of learning a new way of carving. Using the simple definition of carving as using a cutting tool to shape a piece of wood by rounding square corners and flattening round surfaces, each student gained a greater appreciation for the art of whittling. Read the rest of this entry »
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These are the ten surviving students of a two day class held at Gorman Farm, Evendale, Ohio (Cincinnati) on June 12 and 13. Pictured left to right on the first row are: Bob Manning, Don Potter, Mickey Huston, Kurt McCarthy, (second row) Barry Pennington, Fred Kruetzkamp, Dick Middleton, Dick Pyles, Steve Cotton and Rick Eskins.
The carving projects included carving a three inch tall Cowpoke Bust and a six inch tall full figured Cowpoke out of an inch and half square block of basswood. The beginning theme was: “Thinking inside the Block,” meaning to learn to see a subject within a block of wood and carve that subject by shaping the wood with slicing cuts of both a knife and gouges. The simplest definition of carving is: “Shaping a piece of wood using a cutting tool in a slicing action to round square corners and flatten round surfaces.” Read the rest of this entry »
Pictured above are the seven students who survived the class taught by the WOOD BEE CARVER at the WAG School of Carving, Crossville, TN on April 30 and May 1 and 2.
. Whittle-Carving which is carving only with a knife is a challenging learning experience in which these seven students survived the two and half days of intense instruction. Pictured above are Simon Graham, Tim Arnett, Russel Brannon, Bill Millard, Phil Babelay, Dave Maldon and Dale Anderson. Read the rest of this entry »
The Eastern Woodland Carving Club hosted a carving class in Converse, Indiana on April 23, 24 and 25. Fifteen students learned the basics for carving only with a knife in the Whittle-Carving style. With good humor, delicious lunch meals and eager enthusiasm each student enjoyed all the various exercises and lessons of learning to slice with the cutting edge and open up a block of wood with notch cuts and three cut triangle chips. Read the rest of this entry »
Charlie and Doris Leverett hosted a three day Whittle-Carving class in their North East Alabama carving studio July 24, 25 and 26, 2009. Participants gathered for a group photograph are (left to right – front row) Mike Lancaster, Charles and Doris Leverett, Tommy Hartline, and David Wilson, (back row – left to right) Don Mertz, Jason Garrard, George Walker, Chris Stevens, Harry Rutland, Frank Miller and Hugh O’Neal. Read the rest of this entry »
Eleven students participated in a two day class in Whittle-Carving on July 11 and 12, 2009 at Gorman Farm, an educational-learning farm in Cincinnati, Ohio. All the students had big smiles on their faces indicating that they enjoyed a fun time together learning to carve three inch tall Whittle Folk Monks using only a knife to carve these small figures.
Participants are left to right in the front row: Don Potter, Pat Scott, Jim Cable, Ed Stover, and back row left to right: Tom Denton, Rick Eskins, Mickey Huston, Barry Pennington, Ferd Kruetzkamp, Dick Middleton and Rob Witzke. Read the rest of this entry »
Pictured to the left are the eight students who survived a one day class in Whittle Folk Art on November 22, 2008. The class was held in the Woodcraft Store in Centerville, Ohio on the subject of a Santa Egg carved out of a basswood hen egg. Class participants included two youth, Kelli Becknell and Will Osbourne. Other participants were Betty Warwick, (front row) and Ken Oswald, Gil Wendt, Mark Osbourne, Barry Pennington and Don Potter (back row). The students learned the basics of opening up an egg to carve the form of a Santa using only a knife. Other instruction covered the basic proportions of the face and lay out design. Even though the class was intense, every student survived the entire day and vowed to continue carving. New friends were made and Kelli and Will did excellent carving for being new to the experience. Read the rest of this entry »
Survivor Students of WHITTLE FOLK ART class in Whittle-Carving a Whittle Folk Monk met on Saturday August 23, 2008 at the carving studio of Sam Slagle. In addition to Sam the other students were Karen Christian, Nancy Stevens, Brian Hasinger, Greg Thurston, Alan L. Wurstner, Mary Rose McCrate, Terry Borger, Ed Johnson, Jerry Kalifoot and Joe Lehman. The class began with Whittling Exercise ABC’s of carving a ball on the end of a square stick to learn the basic “slicing cuts” and “knoch cuts” by carving a ball which became a means of learning how to design and carve a human head that can be turned to be looking right or left, be looking up or down or having the head tilted slightly. The rest of the one day class was carving a three inch by one inch square block of basswood into a Whittle Folk Monk. With good humor and intense work each student learned the fine art of “Whittling away time,” while having fun learning together.
Whittle Folk Monks were subject of the one day class.
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