September Challenge

[TwinOaks]

My YAK ate my homework!!!

[Crystal]

Crystal,

The "dog at my homework" excuse is old and used up. You need something more original. How about, "my brother pee'd on my homework". My daughter actually had to use that once, and it wasn't even made up. Our oldest son was sleepwalking, came into the living room and decided that the coffee table was the toilet. Just so happened that that's where my daughters homework was. My wife was in the kitchen and couldn't figure out why it sounded like water running in the living room. So that's no the excuse around here.

I'm gonna clean up my messsy workshop today and hopefully will have some room and some time to at least start on this months challenge tomorrow. You should come over and we could see if we could do something about that aversion to carving fur.

Mmmm - shoulda said the dog pee'd on my homework. :-) My husband's one cousin sleep walked when they were kids. On night the grown-ups were watching a movie after the kids went to bed and he come down and pee'd in the popcorn bowl. Must be a thing with coffee tables.

I'd pop right over for a lesson, messy room or not, but my mom always said to stay away from places called "Bad Lands". Or was it "bad part of town". Can't remember. It's terrible getting old.

Crystal

[howardb]

Hi every one,

I have to say that I am sorry to you all, I had this challenge planned out and then I could not get my scanner to work then the pc went down so I am using VERY BAD pictures for this month's challenge. If any one can make a better pattern out of the mess I have that would be so great!!! So on with the challenge.

It is a figure carving challenge. The pattern is of a coyote howling at the moon. It is aprox two and one half inches by three inches. Tool and color the coyote in your favorite way. As an added challenge to go along with this pattern try to describe how you tooled or colored the pattern when you post your pictures.

Thank you for your patience and support of the challenges.

Clay M.

The dog ate my homework. See? Here he is balancing a ball on his nose... Right after that, he ate the ball AND my homework.

Brent

[ClayB]

Ok, I finally got over being lazy, got my shop cleaned up, and got my piece carved for the September challenge.

Ignore the red spots on the leather, that was an OOPS caused by the messy shop. (or maybe it's blood spatter cuz someone wasn't enjoying the howling while they were trying to sleep) Hopefully if I ever decide to color this, I can hide the red spots with the paint somehow.

[leatheroo]

sweet work clay. now i see how it should be done...i might try again!

[ClayB]

Thanks Caroline,

But remember, just because you did it differently doesn't mean yours is wrong. It's just different and nicely done. I think that's the point of this, to see other ways to do things. That said, if you do try it again, it'll be interesting to see what you do differently the next time.

[TwinOaks]

3 year old thread.

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