With my Saddle now complete, I use a wood stain to color it and then paint the saddle blanket. Lastly a couple coats of Minwax Satin Finish varnish to finish. To complete the Saddle, I use some thin strips of leather and a few brass decorative nails to make the leather ties as shown. I…
Category: Sculpture
Carving a Saddle – Part 1
Here is a new pictorial guide demonstrating how to carve a small saddle. While cutting out the block might appear hard to do, it is really quite easy. Draw the design onto a piece of 3″ basswood. Cut out the blank following the outer lines of the Saddle. To remove the inner area clamp the…
Vultures!
While combing through my older computer files I came across this video series which was a lot of fun creating and will no doubt be just as fun doing it again. It was made over 10 years ago, back when I was using the old Google Blogspot site. When you play the first video there…
Painting “Winter’s Warrior” – Part 4
With this post we wrap up the painting of this figure. The 4 videos on the project are all up on my Youtube channel. I think it turned out much better than I originally thought it would. I like it. So, what’s the next project. Well…….I’ve been looking for something interesting that would appeal to…
Painting “Winter’s Warrior” – Part 3
I took a bit of liberty and jumped ahead with the painting. You didn’t miss much that you haven’t seen before. Everybody want to do a full figure carving so I think we’re just about ready to kick that series off. So, Part 4 should wrap this one up. In the meantime just click on…
Painting “Winter’s Warrior” – Part 2
With the Robe and the feathers painted, in this video we move on to painting the attachments. We might also spiff up the shirt a bit. Looking good so far. Here’s the link to the video: https://youtu.be/92F6hlY0d2A If this series is of help to you and your craft, a small, voluntary donation to help support this…
Painting “Winter’s Warrior” – Part 1
Here’s my latest figure and this video series will show how it’s painted, from the beginning to the end and it’s final presentation. I hope you enjoy the trip! Here’s the link to the first video: https://youtu.be/SLGP5TU-YXs If this series is of help to you and your craft, a small, voluntary donation to help support this…
Making a Kerosene Lantern
This is a new 4-part video series up on my Youtube channel on making this little jewel. A pretty simple job with fairly easy to obtain material. The clear Plexiglas rod can be obtained on Amazon if you can’t find it locally. A fun project which will add a great detail to an Old West…
A Rough Night – All Busted Up!
Originally published on June 8, 2012 I had so much fun painting this fellas face this morning I thought you might enjoy seeing the shape he’s in so far. Need to tone down the dry brushing on the hat but so far he’s looking pretty damaged and that’s good. Comments welcome.
A Rough Night!
Originally published on June 7, 2012 Here’s a busted up Buckaroo who I just finished this morning. From the looks of him Happy Hour down at the Gold Nugget Saloon didn’t end too well by the looks of the fat lip, the cracked skull and the swelling shiner, not to mention the shot up hat….