Category: Sculpture

Over on the Caricature Carvers Face Book page, a carver ask the question that has been asked at least a thousand times on the best way to apply a finish to their carving.  In case you don’t know my thoughts on the matter, here is my response to that question along with some added advice…

Yesterday, I received a call asking “Where’s the pattern for that horse!”  Of all the inquiries I receive, and I get a lot of them, that question is the one that tops the list.  After about 30 minutes I was finally able to guide them to a place where they could obtain that pattern and…

This is an early one.  Carved back in 1999.  He’s clearly ready for battle…decked out with his lance, shield, bow and arrows, tommyhawk, and I’ll bet there’s a knife behind that shield.  Native Americans are a joy to carve and paint.  There are details galore and then there’s the painting challenge.  Oh, and the research…

I did a whole collection of War Horse’s for a collector down in Texas back in the late ’90s.  Hopefully, more photos of them will turn up as we go on.  This one is quite colorful and is decked out with all the required gear for a fully qualified terror of the plains.  I can’t…

  I did this full body version of the Pancho piece shortly after the previous one in ’98.  This little guy only stands about 8″ tall but he’s a pretty neat little figure. I know I always smiled when I saw him….maybe it’s the size of that hog-leg hanging on his cumberbund. Pedro and Pancho…

I can tell by the base that this one was carved back in the late 90’s.   Things were evidently slack around the ranch to allow this wrangler some serious whittling down at the coral. Comments welcome.

I hope you’re not getting tired of Will as here’s one more rendition of him. It’s been quite a while since I carved Will Rogers so I thought I’d do another bust of the Oklahoma humorist.   The hat behind his head is not the one that will be there at the end but it…

I can’t remember whether photos of this carving have ever been published.  I think I did this piece back in 1997.  I still have it as I think it’s a great example of my best work.  I love the motion in the piece from the rope in his hand to the movement of the neckerchief. …

 I have decided to reopen my original Out West Woodcarving Blogger posts.  Here’s the link: http://outwestwoodcarving.blogspot.com   You will be able to see all my posts from the vary first one in May, 2006 to the most current.  I only post there now to keep the cite open.   While almost all the videos and all the…

Through my blurry old eyes, I think this was created back in 1997.   I hadn’t entered the internet world yet so I can’t rely on an old description.  Looking at the photo now I really like the horse’s painting.  The carving overall is pretty nice too.  I was still in the closed eyes period for…