Friday, April, 2008 This is a figure I’ve been working on for quite a while. I first got the idea up at the Kansas City Woodcarving show. It portrays a cowboy spinning his rope. The Texas Skip is the action of spinning the rope parallel with the body and jumping or skipping through it as…
Month: March 2023
A Clean Sweep In Wichita!
Tuesday, April 08, 2008 I was very fortunate to take Firsts in all the Caricature categories at the Great Plains Woodcarving Show in Wichita, Kansas this past weekend. “Sad End To A Bad Year” won the Single Figure in a Scene, “Deets” for Single Figure, “A Cowboy’s Pony” for Animal Figure, and “Distant Drums” for…
Beans Again?
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 Here’s another figure done a lot smaller than I normally carve. He’s about 7″ tall not counting the base. Some people prefer this size over the larger ones although their a little harder to detail when working on a smaller scale. However, I have to admit they still make a nice…
The Country Doctor
Sunday, March 16, 2008 To hopefully keep your interest in this Blog here is a smaller carving similar to the Doc used on his rural rounds. This figure stood about 6 inches tall.–The Buggy was a real fun project. I made the folding top out of a piece of cotton cloth soaked in shellac and…
Joshua Hits The Trail!
Every once in a great while we a lucky enough to produce something that that seems to be a step above our normal output. “Joshua Deets” is just such a carving. Maybe it was the love I have for the saga of Lonesome Dove and the fantastic and colorful characters that inhabit it. Maybe it…
Joshua Puts His Face On!
Monday, February 18, 2008 I sat down and painted Joshua’s head this afternoon and the result was so neat that I thought I would show him off.-I have found the secret to painting a Black character and that’s that you don’t use any black paint! I used the following colors for his face:–Red Iron Oxide-Yellow Ochre-Midnight…
“Joshua Deets” – First Look
Saturday, February 16, 2008 What a great subject to carve! The book Lonesome Dove and it’s associated TV series is loaded with material and characters so rich in detail that just saying their names gives me a whiff of cattle herds and trail dust. I thought it would be neat to try and carve some…
“Distant Drums” – Finished
Wednesday, February 12, 2008 All that paint finally dried so here is the carving all finished. If you compare the photos here with those on the “First Look” post you’ll note that the telegraph pole was lengthened quite a bit. I did this because the first pole was just too short. It would have made…
Hard Luck Horse Ranch – Part 3
Friday, January 25, 2008 Here is the Hard Luck Horse Ranch completed. It turned out real well. I settled on coloring the horse as a bay with three white socks. One thing you have to remember when painting a horse with colored socks is that if the sock is white the hoof on that leg…
Hard Luck Horse Ranch – Part 2
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 With this post we’ll wrap up this little base building project. You’ll note I’ve change the name of the post. I’ve done a lot of these scenes so this will make this one unique from the others. – There are a lot of different steps in this post but none are…