Category: Sculpture

 This is a NEW post! While going though some old posts before Judy and I started making videos, I came across this short Photo collection showing how I carve a caricature horse’s head.  I thought it would make a good experiment to see if it’s possible to capture some of these older, photographic posts onto…

Originally published on October 10, 2011 Just put the final touches on this one this morning.  He turned out really well.  I especially like the muted colors of the shirt and neckerchief.  The chaps look pretty worn too so he’s evidently seen some time in the saddle.–Hope you like him.  There are more photos in…

Originally published on September 21, 2011 Here’s a new Chuckwagon Cook I just finished.  You might recognize the head from the unfinished one in the post before this one.  I had hoped he would be my entry for the over 15″ category but he missed it by 1/4″!!  Going to have to speak to the…

Originally published on September 7, 2011 Here are a couple heads I carved at our Tuesday carve-a-long.  As a rule, I don’t normally work on a current project at these meetings as it’s hard to concentrate and keep up with the conversations and joke telling.  I can, however, almost whip out a quick head study…

Originally published on September 12, 2011 I spent most of Sunday and all this morning finishing this fella up.  All I can say is WOW!  He really turned out well and I’m sure will be one of the best examples of my efforts so far.–I’m not really sure just how many feathers are in his…

Originally published on September 9, 2011 I finished the shield and lance and have started with the feathers.  I could only do one test strip row before the guy started to frighten me so I’m taking a break!  I will say that this fella is really starting to look impressive.  Can’t wait till all the…

Originally published on September 7, 2011 Just a few more details…..I only have to flesh out the lance and shield and it will be time to start work on all those feathers.  Took me two days to paint this fella only to have most of the beading details covered up by that necklace!  Oh well,…

Originally published on September 4, 2011 Spent the day finishing up the body, adding the braids and the claw necklace.  Also added the shield and lance and turned the walnut base.    This is going to be one impressive carving even if I do say so myself.  I used an emery wheel to texture the…

Originally published on September 4, 2011 I’ve always been fascinated by the headdress worn by Cheyenne Dog Soldiers.  So, with the confidence gained with previous projects I thought I just might be brave enough to give it a try as it would be a real challenge.   Setting in the shop,  I roughed out the…

Just in case a lot of you aren’t aware about what is going on with this Blog, I am in the process of republishing many of my old Google  Blogspot posts I’ve done over the years onto that site.  Google has a tendency to change things it hosts with no warning and I want to…