July-August 2014 WOM

by Matt Kelley
July 13th, 2014

Wel­come to Wood­carver Online Mag­a­zine Vol­ume 18 Issue 4

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2014 Inter­na­tional Wood­carvers Congress

Detail from Guardian, by Chris Howard, Gatlin­burg, TN

First in Group N — Impressionistic/Freeform/Stylized Carv­ings; First in Class 966 — Com­bin­ing Two or More Group N Items; Judge’s Choice — Josh Guge

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Hello, Friends in Carv­ing -

It’s mid-sumer here in North Amer­ica, which means the Inter­na­tional Wood­carvers Con­gress, Ward World, and some of the annual roundups are behind us, but more events await, includ­ing Burke’s West­ern & Wildlife Art Work­shop and the Doane Expe­ri­ence in July, more roundups, and Artistry in Wood in Novem­ber.   If you have never attended one of the major events, you owe it to your­self to plan to attend at least on in the next year.

The July/August 2014 issue of WOM is now avail­able — you’ll find the arti­cles fol­low­ing this post.

In this issue:

Photo Gallery: Inter­na­tional Wood­carver Con­gress 2014 — Casual Pho­tos by Matt Kelley

Photo Gallery: North Alabama Wood­carv­ing Asso­ci­a­tion Show 2014 — Casual Pho­tos by “Ol’ Don” and Sandie Burgdorf

Ol’ Don’s Draw­ing Table: All Dressed UP And No Place To Go

Pete LeClair: The Mex­i­can

Events, Hap­pen­ings and Goings-On Updated!

Com­ing Soon:

Review - Carv­ing & Paint­ing Christ­mas Orna­ments, by Betty Pad­den

As always, we wel­come your feed­back, ideas for arti­cles, etc.  Please use the con­tact form on the About page in the menu bar above.

Enjoy!

WOM Editor Matt Kelley

WOM Edi­tor Matt Kelley

 

Matt Kel­ley

Editor/Owner

 

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IWC 2014 Photo Gallery

by Matt Kelley
July 13th, 2014

IWC-2014-CrowdThe Inter­na­tional Wood­carver Con­gress 2014 proved to be every­thing it is cracked up to be — a busy week of edu­ca­tion, fel­low­ship and com­pe­ti­tion.   In a future issue of WOM we’ll fea­ture Marc Featherly’s always excel­lent for­mal pho­tographs of the win­ning carv­ings.  In the mean­time, sit back and enjoy Matt Kelley’s casual pho­tos of the carv­ings and peo­ple on the show­room floor.

To visit the Gallery, click HERE, or click WOM in the menu bar, then The Gal­leries menu item.

Categories Competitions, Photo Gallery

North Alabama Woodcarvers 2013 Show

by "Ol' Don" Burgdorf
July 13th, 2014

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The North Alabama Wood­carvers Association’s 32nd annual show took place in Huntsville last fall.  Long-time WOM con­trib­u­tors “Ol’ Don” and Sandie Burgdorf were in atten­dance and were kind enough to share their casual pho­tos from the event.   To learn more about the NAWA and the 33th annual show, visit their web page HERE.

To visit the Gallery, click HERE, or click WOM in the menu bar, then The Gal­leries menu item.

Categories Competitions, Photo Gallery

From “Ol’ Don’s” Drawing Table

by "Ol' Don" Burgdorf
July 13th, 2014

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 “Ol’ Don” Burgdorf presents All Dressed Up And No Place To Go

To print the pat­tern, click here; the pat­tern will open in a new win­dow, and should print on 8.5 x 11 paper. For Print­ing Hints, click here.

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“Ol’ Don” Burgdorf is a carver and artist from Hohen­wald, TN. Don’s fea­ture “Doo­dles ‘n Notes for Carvin’ Folks” appears reg­u­larly in Chip Chats, and his pat­terns are now found in each issue of WOM and Carv­ing Mag­a­zine. He has sev­eral pat­tern port­fo­lios on a vari­ety of sub­jects avail­able for down­load from his web­site. For infor­ma­tion about the port­fo­lios and other cus­tom ser­vices Don pro­vides carvers, click here. Some of Don’s “Chat­ter­ing Chip­pers” pat­terns can also be seen at the Woodcarver’s Porch pat­tern page.

Ol’ Don now has rough­outs avail­able for some of his pat­terns. You are invited to visit Ol’ Don’s home page, or email him at ol’don AT artofdon.com

Copy­right 2011–2013 “Ol’ Don” Burgdorf. This Pat­tern may be copied for indi­vid­ual use; repro­duc­tion for resale is pro­hib­ited with­out express writ­ten permission.

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Categories Caricature, Patterns

From Pete LeClair

by Pete LeClair
July 13th, 2014

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Pete LeClair’s Projects

Pete LeClair’s The Mex­i­can

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Pete LeClair is a well-known carver and teacher, author of three carv­ing books and a mem­ber of the Car­i­ca­ture Carvers of Amer­ica. You may learn more about Pete at his page on the CCA web site. Be sure to tour the rest of the CCA pages when you have a moment. In addi­tion, you may email Pete at pet­ele­clair AT comcast.net. Pho­tos copy­right 2001 — 2013 by Pete LeClair.

This pat­tern may be copied for indi­vid­ual use only; repro­duc­tion for resale is pro­hib­ited with­out express writ­ten permission.

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Categories Caricature, Patterns

2014 “Artistry In Wood” — Dayton Carvers Guild

by Matt Kelley
July 13th, 2014

AIW '14 Poster

Categories Competitions

May-June 2014 WOM

by Matt Kelley
May 16th, 2014

Wel­come to Wood­carver Online Mag­a­zine Vol­ume 18 Issue 3

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Best of Show, First in Group Human:  CCA 2014 Car­i­ca­ture Carv­ing Competition

Team­work, by Steve Dun­man, Eagle, ID

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Hello, Friends in Carv­ing -

The May/June 2014 issue of WOM are now avail­able .  Scroll down to find them fol­low­ing this article.

In this issue:

Photo Gallery: CCA 2013 Car­i­ca­ture Carv­ing Competition

CCA 2014 Seminar

Ol’ Don’s Draw­ing Table: The Lit­tlest Scout

Pete LeClair: W.C. Parker

Perry Reynolds on Devel­op­ing Your Cre­ative Expression

Review — Carv­ing Wood­spir­its:  Beyond The Basics, by Susan Hen­drix and Paul “PJ” Peery

Review — Carv­ing Fan­tasy & Leg­end Fig­ures in Wood — Revised Edi­tion, by Shawn Cipa

Events, Hap­pen­ings and Goings-On Updated!

As always, we wel­come your feed­back, ideas for arti­cles, etc.  Please use the con­tact form on the About page in the menu bar above.

Enjoy!

WOM Editor Matt Kelley

WOM Edi­tor Matt Kelley

 

Matt Kel­ley

Editor/Owner

 

Categories Editor, WOM

CCA 2013 Competition

by Matt Kelley
May 16th, 2014

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CCA 2013 Car­i­ca­ture Carv­ing Competition

The Car­i­ca­ture Carvers of Amer­ica (CCA) spon­sored 2013 Car­i­ca­ture Carv­ing Com­pe­ti­tion was held on August 21 and 22 in Con­verse, IN, and once again hosted by the East­ern Wood­land Carvers Club.  Club mem­bers han­dle receiv­ing and unpack­ing of sub­mis­sions, sit up dis­plays for judg­ing, and repack the carv­ing for ship­ping home after the competition.

As in past years, the com­pe­ti­tion was keen and the judges had no small task in select­ing the winners.

The CCA mem­ber­ship encour­ages any­one to com­peted in 2013 to do so again this year, and sug­gest that those carvers who have not entered the com­pe­ti­tion give it con­sid­er­a­tion.  Judg­ing is rotated among CCA mem­bers, so you can expect a fresh approach each year.

The Best of Show win­ner was Steve Dunman’s carv­ing of Team­work.  Sec­ond Best of Show was Hind­sight by Vern Par­rish, and Scott Brown claimed Third Best of Show for Fresh­wa­ter Fish w/ Weeds.  You can see Carl Saathoff’s excel­lent pho­tos of these and other win­ners in the Win­ners’ Gal­leries in this issue of WOM.

The top three win­ners received cash prices of $200, $100, and $50 respec­tively.  First and sec­ond place in each cat­e­gory received prizes of $50 and $25.

For infor­ma­tion about the 2014 Com­pe­ti­tion, which will be judged on August 21, 2014, visit the CCA web site at cca-carvers.com.

Click HERE to visit the Win­ners Gallery, or click WOM in the main menu bar, then click The Gal­leries in the drop down menu.

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Categories Caricature, Competitions

CCA Seminar 2014

by Matt Kelley
May 16th, 2014

CCA Sem­i­nar 2014

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The 2013 instruc­tors with some of the 2013 Com­pe­ti­tion winners.

The annual Car­i­ca­ture Carvers of Amer­ica (CCA) Sem­i­nar is held each year in con­junc­tion with the judg­ing of the Car­i­ca­ture Carv­ing Com­pe­ti­tion, round­ing out a busy week in Con­verse, IN. The instruc­tors for the 2014 Sem­i­nar are Dave Stet­son, Chris Ham­mack and Bruce Henn.  Par­tic­i­pants will carve one day with each of the instruc­tors in rota­tion over the three day sem­i­nar.  The fee of $165 includes the three days of instruc­tion and lunch;  blanks are an addi­tion $10-$15 per instruc­tor.  The 2014 sem­i­nar is sched­uled for Fri­day, August 22 through Sun­day, August 24.

The annual Car­i­ca­ture Carvers of Amer­ica (CCA) Sem­i­nar is held each year in con­junc­tion with the judg­ing of the Car­i­ca­ture Carv­ing Com­pe­ti­tion, round­ing out a busy week in Con­verse, IN.  The instruc­tors for the 2014 Sem­i­nar are Dave Stet­son, Chris Ham­mack and Bruce Henn.  Par­tic­i­pants will carve one day with each of the instruc­tors in rota­tion over the three day sem­i­nar.  The fee of $165 includes the three days of instruc­tion and lunch;  blanks are an addi­tion $10-$15 per instruc­tor.  The 2014 sem­i­nar is sched­uled for Fri­day, August 22 through Sun­day, August 24.

As of Octo­ber 28th, the 2014 sem­i­nar is full.  How­ever, there is a wait­ing list, and every year there are sev­eral can­cel­la­tions.  It is not unusual to work through a wait­ing list of 6 to 10 peo­ple. Please con­tact Bob Travis to be on the wait­ing list. or to cheek on cur­rent sta­tus. Bob’s email is  rltravis AT ucdavis.edu

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Categories Caricature, Instruction

From “Ol’ Don’s” Drawing Table

by "Ol' Don" Burgdorf
May 16th, 2014

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 “Ol’ Don” Burgdorf presents The Lit­tlest Scout

To print the pat­tern, click here; the pat­tern will open in a new win­dow, and should print on 8.5 x 11 paper. For Print­ing Hints, click here.

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“Ol’ Don” Burgdorf is a carver and artist from Hohen­wald, TN. Don’s fea­ture “Doo­dles ‘n Notes for Carvin’ Folks” appears reg­u­larly in Chip Chats, and his pat­terns are now found in each issue of WOM and Carv­ing Mag­a­zine. He has sev­eral pat­tern port­fo­lios on a vari­ety of sub­jects avail­able for down­load from his web­site. For infor­ma­tion about the port­fo­lios and other cus­tom ser­vices Don pro­vides carvers, click here. Some of Don’s “Chat­ter­ing Chip­pers” pat­terns can also be seen at the Woodcarver’s Porch pat­tern page.

Ol’ Don now has rough­outs avail­able for some of his pat­terns. You are invited to visit Ol’ Don’s home page, or email him at ol’don AT artofdon.com

Copy­right 2011–2013 “Ol’ Don” Burgdorf. This Pat­tern may be copied for indi­vid­ual use; repro­duc­tion for resale is pro­hib­ited with­out express writ­ten permission.

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