Day 1 of a 3 day seminar with Rick Jensen (http://www.rickjensenwoodcarving.com/) complete, and I'm exhausted. Twelve students from all over, started with something like this....
This is two pieces of cottonwood bark laminated together with a piece of thin cardboard down the center. Rick's method is unique in that most cottonwood bark carvings have an "ugly" side that you position against the wall. That "ugly" side is the side of the bark where it was attached to the tree. You could still do a 3D carving, but a full 360 degree "in-the-round" carving wasn't very practical (i.e. you'd waste a lot of wood and hollowing it out to allow light through...ugh). Later in the process, after roughing out the basic shape with both hand and power tools, you'll see that we'll be splitting it in half in order to hollow the backsides such that when we add doors and windows light can shine through the carving making it more realistic. Here are some pictures of where I got to today. Its a house sitting on top of a mushroom (for those of you wondering why, this is called a whimsical house so why not???). I'm not really happy with the roof, as I think I didn't leave enough room to create the type of flowing/whimsical roof line I would've liked, but we'll see where this ends up at the end of tomorrow. Thanks for following!
This is two pieces of cottonwood bark laminated together with a piece of thin cardboard down the center. Rick's method is unique in that most cottonwood bark carvings have an "ugly" side that you position against the wall. That "ugly" side is the side of the bark where it was attached to the tree. You could still do a 3D carving, but a full 360 degree "in-the-round" carving wasn't very practical (i.e. you'd waste a lot of wood and hollowing it out to allow light through...ugh). Later in the process, after roughing out the basic shape with both hand and power tools, you'll see that we'll be splitting it in half in order to hollow the backsides such that when we add doors and windows light can shine through the carving making it more realistic. Here are some pictures of where I got to today. Its a house sitting on top of a mushroom (for those of you wondering why, this is called a whimsical house so why not???). I'm not really happy with the roof, as I think I didn't leave enough room to create the type of flowing/whimsical roof line I would've liked, but we'll see where this ends up at the end of tomorrow. Thanks for following!
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