techniques Posted January 22, 2010 Report Posted January 22, 2010 Kathy, thank you so much for the great tutorial. I will try this in the next days and if it works I will show the results here. Gisela Quote
yaklady Posted January 27, 2010 Author Report Posted January 27, 2010 Sorry for the slow reply, Gisela. I look forward to seeing what you do. I'm looking forward to yours, too, Hilly! Quote All bad yaks make their way to the freezer.
TimKleffner Posted January 27, 2010 Report Posted January 27, 2010 Kathy As I get into figure carving, you suggested Peter Main's spoon? Where can I get one and how much? What brand tools do you use for your figure work? When does your class start in Sheridan? Happy tooling Tim Quote It's hard to fail, but worse never to have tried to succeed.Theodore Roosevelt
yaklady Posted January 27, 2010 Author Report Posted January 27, 2010 Kathy As I get into figure carving, you suggested Peter Main's spoon? Where can I get one and how much? What brand tools do you use for your figure work? When does your class start in Sheridan? Happy tooling Tim Hi Tim, The only place I know to get that modeler is right from the source, from Peter. You can contact him through his website. They were $35 last I knew, over a year ago. Maybe they haven't gone up. I use an assortment of tools. My Craftools are old ones, which work much better than the new ones. For most things, I use them. Bob's matting tools are by far superior to any others I've used and I don't use anything else for matting. I use some of his bevellers as well. When you get into scenery, he has a lot of helpful tools for that. One invaluable tool is Craftool F910, modified. Grind off the sides to make it a sharp, pointy beveller, and it works great for doing hair. That's what I used to do the wild boar under the patterns heading. The new F902's need to be ground down as well to make them work right. They're too fat and round. My Sheridan class will be on Friday, all day. We will do a horse head in the morning and color it in the afternoon. At least that's the plan! Hope to see you there! Kathy Quote All bad yaks make their way to the freezer.
Members jbird Posted January 30, 2010 Members Report Posted January 30, 2010 Kathy Outstanding OUTstanding OUTSTanding OUTSTANding OUTSTANDING thanks Josh Quote Josh Dusty Chaps Leather & Seven O Saddle Shop 801-809-8456 Keep moving forward! On a horse. Hebrews 4:12 My link
techniques Posted January 31, 2010 Report Posted January 31, 2010 Sorry for the slow reply, Gisela. I look forward to seeing what you do. I'm looking forward to yours, too, Hilly! Dear Kathy, here is what I made. I'm not satisfied with them and would appreciate if you could take a hard look on it. Please let me know what I can do to improve it. I would also like to ask if you could make a challenge with horse carving. Maybe you could give us a carving pattern and leave us 1 or 2 months to finish them. I'm not sure if you have the time for it, but maybe you could show us the carving step-by-step? Please, please do this, if you have time for it. I'm so far distanted and can't visit your workshop. So this would be a great help. Greetings Gisela Quote
yaklady Posted January 31, 2010 Author Report Posted January 31, 2010 Dear Kathy, here is what I made. I'm not satisfied with them and would appreciate if you could take a hard look on it. Please let me know what I can do to improve it. I would also like to ask if you could make a challenge with horse carving. Maybe you could give us a carving pattern and leave us 1 or 2 months to finish them. I'm not sure if you have the time for it, but maybe you could show us the carving step-by-step? Please, please do this, if you have time for it. I'm so far distanted and can't visit your workshop. So this would be a great help. Greetings Gisela Hi Gisela, Yes, I think Germany is a little too far for you to come visit me for an afternoon of fun carving together! It sure would be fun, though. Let's talk about the eye you did. Not bad! The eyeball itself is bevelled correctly and nice and smooth. The eyelashes could use a little work. If you have a hairblade, go over the lashes with it, to give a more hairy look. Use a fine-point stylus whether you use the hairblade or not. The lashes are rough looking, so make some of your impressions deeper than others, and not too straight. The pear shader can be used at the back of the eye, like you did in the front. The lower eyelids could be smoothed out a bit. The one right by the eye looks good, and the rest can be shallow. I would be delighted to post a pattern and show you how to do it. Give me a few days at least to put something together, and figure out how to post the pattern. You can take all the time you need to carve the horse. I wish you could come to Sheridan. I'll be teaching a class there and would love to have you in it! Kathy Quote All bad yaks make their way to the freezer.
yaklady Posted January 31, 2010 Author Report Posted January 31, 2010 Kathy Outstanding OUTstanding OUTSTanding OUTSTANding OUTSTANDING thanks Josh Thank you, Josh! It's all these nice comments that encourage me to do stuff on here. I'm happy to help out anyone who wants it. Kathy Quote All bad yaks make their way to the freezer.
techniques Posted February 4, 2010 Report Posted February 4, 2010 (edited) Hi Gisela, Yes, I think Germany is a little too far for you to come visit me for an afternoon of fun carving together! It sure would be fun, though. Let's talk about the eye you did. Not bad! The eyeball itself is bevelled correctly and nice and smooth. The eyelashes could use a little work. If you have a hairblade, go over the lashes with it, to give a more hairy look. Use a fine-point stylus whether you use the hairblade or not. The lashes are rough looking, so make some of your impressions deeper than others, and not too straight. The pear shader can be used at the back of the eye, like you did in the front. The lower eyelids could be smoothed out a bit. The one right by the eye looks good, and the rest can be shallow. I would be delighted to post a pattern and show you how to do it. Give me a few days at least to put something together, and figure out how to post the pattern. You can take all the time you need to carve the horse. I wish you could come to Sheridan. I'll be teaching a class there and would love to have you in it! Kathy Hello Kathy, thank you very much for taking a hard look on my horse-eye carving. I will make some other samples and will show them again here at the forum. It would be great if you could post a pattern. Take you time with it. I'm happy if you could do that. When it continues a little longer it doesn't matter. I hope I can someday come to the United States again. In May 1989 I had the pleasure to travel to the USA and joined the Jamboree at Prairie State Leather Guilds. There I had the pleasure to met many leather carvers like Robb Barr, Paul Burnett, Kat Kuszak, Darwin Ohlerking, Charles Heschke and many others which names I not all knew. There were several demonstrations which people could watch, but I didn't remember that there were also workshops. However it was very interesting to watch thesedemonstrations and I remember very often at this show. Greetings Gisela Edited February 4, 2010 by techniques Quote
yaklady Posted February 5, 2010 Author Report Posted February 5, 2010 My scanner won't work, so I took a picture of the pattern. I hope it works for you! I also started working on step-by-step instructions and will post that when it's done. Kathy Quote All bad yaks make their way to the freezer.
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