Does anyone wood carve?

[minks]

I want to try it

I am not into the fine tiney detail stuff but some crude garden figure stuff. I have seen some around and they look cool but how easy is that to do really? I would like to carve up a something for my folks garden as an xmas gift, do you think it's just a matter of picking up a few tools and a log and chipping away at it? Hmmmmmmm I am stumped (pun intended)

[valerie]

I did a little in art class in high school... don't know what happened to

any of it...



You can go to a crafts store, a lot of them will have simple tools to

do it...



Are you artistic in that you "see" something in a block of wood? Know

what I mean? Sometimes I was good at that, other times not so...



Dad used to carve "beer chairs" out of humoungous logs using his

CHAINSAW!!



Buy "soft" wood, it's easier to carve, and be very, very careful,

sometimes tools slip and you can carve a gigantic gash in your hand.



:-6

[minks]

valerie wrote: I did a little in art class in high school... don't know what happened to

any of it...



You can go to a crafts store, a lot of them will have simple tools to

do it...



Are you artistic in that you "see" something in a block of wood? Know

what I mean? Sometimes I was good at that, other times not so...



Dad used to carve "beer chairs" out of humoungous logs using his

CHAINSAW!!



Buy "soft" wood, it's easier to carve, and be very, very careful,

sometimes tools slip and you can carve a gigantic gash in your hand.



:-6


thanks Val, I know of a cool store nearby that sells these supplies maybe they have a crash course or something.... I have ideas in my head so would have to work with them and a log hmmmmm I wonder I wonder.

[valerie]

I'd give it a try, Minks, what have you got to lose, really? It might

turn into a sort of zen peaceful enjoyable hobby for you if nothing else!



:-6

[minks]

valerie wrote: I'd give it a try, Minks, what have you got to lose, really? It might

turn into a sort of zen peaceful enjoyable hobby for you if nothing else!



:-6


yeah that is what I am hoping for... it does intrigue me....I just feel like I will be handing over this odd, crudely carved up log to my parents as a gift, and calling it garden art and they thinking I have digressed to preschool days giving my bad art away aahahahahahahaha

[Patsy Warnick]

Minks,

What did you have in mind for you carving? Like what design - large, small just curious. As Val stated be careful , and there are soft woods to use. And this is a great form of therapy - take all the frustration out..

I've made and have several crude/rough yard art - I took a real cool shovel and hung it on my gate - I love it, I also have a old rusty hay bailer in the yard - weird stuff - and I know I have weird / different taste. I like to think of it as unique, and something someone else won't have.

Good luck

Patsy

[minks]

Patsy Warnick wrote: Minks,

What did you have in mind for you carving? Like what design - large, small just curious. As Val stated be careful , and there are soft woods to use. And this is a great form of therapy - take all the frustration out..

I've made and have several crude/rough yard art - I took a real cool shovel and hung it on my gate - I love it, I also have a old rusty hay bailer in the yard - weird stuff - and I know I have weird / different taste. I like to think of it as unique, and something someone else won't have.

Good luck

Patsy


Well in actual fact I would like to take a stump and carve a couple wimsical faces into it some with flowy hair and a few leaves kind of a wood elf family photo idea.

Or a green man

[Patsy Warnick]

Maybe taking a log - chizzling some log away and using a wood burning techinque to enhance the figures - just a idea. None of this need to be perfect - I love the more rustic / crude art anyway, and then maybe use a log large enough or tall enough to place a plant on top without blocking the carved figures.

I'm sure your family will appreciate your art.

Patsy