Category: Sculpture

I’ve always been fasinated by the Buffalo Soldiers, probably because they were headquarted just up the road from us in Fort Scott, Kansas. They patrolled the military highway between there, Fort Gibson, Ok, and Fort Smith, Arkansas. Just maybe they rode right by the Out West Gallery. Whatever, I carved this First Sergeant back in…

–To do the barrel I first turned the basic shape on the lathe and then used my largest forstner bit to drill a hole about 1″ deep to accommodate the head and hands. After that I whittled the surface and added the details. Here he is all painted and ready to face that horny hunk…

Here’s one I’m really proud of.  Lots of details and a great subject.  Carved back in 2008.  Hope you like him.  Comments welcome. 

Here’s a Cowboy with lots of action, showing off his rope spinning skills.  Hope you like him. Carved back in 2008. Comments welcome. 

This is a big one!  I won’t try to explain all that went into this piece as it would take quite a bit of typing and I’m no secretary.  Let’s just leave it as an event on the river with a canoe full of furs being overturned by a moose somewhere out west during the…

I’ve seen a number of posts and questions over the years about just what colors should be used to paint a Black character, whether caricature or otherwise.  Well, I’ll give you my solution and it’s a simple one.  We’ll use Sgt Buffalo as an example as I think the colors used in his case do…

Let’s see….Slippers, Beer, Racing Form….Now to get those Dwarves out of the recliner! This was a fun figure to do even though I’m not really orientated toward this Jolly Old Fella.  But, sometimes you just have to go with the flow of things and on the Caricature Carvers Face Book site that’s Santa.  However, in…

Now I realize not all carvers are great painters. I will try to help you as much as I can but if you look closely at the photos I think you can pretty well figure things out.  So lets take the hard parts 1 at a time.  But first, remember that I paint with the…

In this segment, we carve and attach a couple of Ermine tails to the headdress.  Like feathers, Native Americans use the Ermine animal skin and especially the tails in a lot of their clothing and headress ornaments.  The tail is used in this instance as it’s white with a black tip which really adds some…

We’re getting serious now!  With the braids carved and attached the bust carving part of this piece is basically finished.  In this one, to determine the shape of the braids, I used a fine wire to bend and follow the shape as the braid lays over the shoulders of the figure.  Drill a small hole…