The instructors and classes for 10th annual Northwest Carving Academy, July 9-13, 2018.
Wayne Barton Chip Carving a cribbage board
Penny Burns Nantucket Baskets either 1,2,3,4,5 days
Gil Drake Spoons 1,2,3,4, or 5 day class
Debbe Edwards Snow Leopard Head
Josh Guge Western Tanager
Chris Hammack Caricature Carving
Jeff Harness Cottonwood Bark
JoAnn Hart Baskets
Pat Moore Carving and Painting an Old World Santa
Charlie Phillips Basket with carved flowers
Mike Reifel Marionette either a Fuzzy Chested Blue Crested Dikkop or Red Waddle Shore Bird
Bob Travis Caricature Carving
Dick Wilk NW Style Carving Box Front Panel either a simple or complex design
or a previous projects Bear Mask, Raven Bowl, Wolf Mask, T-Bird Rattle, Orca Frontlet
Just for fun
Quilters and crafter group
The class project is to embellish a cribbage board with chip carving. Wayne will cover advanced concepts of design, carving and finishing.
A great class for learning chip carving or advancing your current skills.
Gil Drake will be teaching spoon carving.
Class can be taken for 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 days.
The class project is a Snow Leopard bust. The class will cover carving, texturing, woodburning and painting.
You will need carving tools, woodburner, paints and brushes.
The tools used by the instructor are a knife, #3 gouge, 1/2' U-gouge, 1/4" U gouge, 3/16" veiner, 1/8" veiner. The instructor will have some tools available for sale.
Cost of roughout to be determined.
The class project is a Western Tanager. This is a power carving class.
Wood cut-out, pattern and references will be provided.
Recommended tools and supplies:
Micromotor or other power carver, extension cord with multiple outlet box, table lamp, grinding and texturing bits, wood burner and dust collector.
..epoxy putty (Quikwood) or blue/yellow ribbon epoxy, or Apoxie Sculpt, super glues,
..paint brushes with a good point and filberts (rounded end brushes), palette and palette knife for color mixing, water container, spray bottle, paper towels, Gesso & stiff brush for application, hair dryer, acrylic paints, painters tape for masking off areas, paint stick and base to hold carving while painting.
..airbrush, hose, and compressor (Josh will have one compressor for use to help paint or bring your own if you want)
Josh will be mixing colors for the carvings he teaches in the class.
Cost roughout and supplies to be determined.
Class: 12-15 students.
Carvers will have a choice of carving any caricature from Cris' collection, visit his website to select. Chris Hammack is a gifted caricature carver. In his class even the most experienced carver will learn a few new tricks. Shown is an example of the 2016 class projects.
Chris carves with about three tools. A knife, an 1/8" V gouge, and a #9 11mm-13mm gouge. 90% of each carving is carved with a knife.
Cost of roughout to be determined.
This class is for intermediate to advanced carvers who want to carve more realistic faces with emotion. Suffer from the heartbreak of chronic flat face? Jeff will teach you the planes of the face, relative proportions and facial anatomy. Jeff has studied under Marv Kaizersatt, Jeff Phares, Phillip Faraut and Terry Kramer, among others, and has been studying, carving and sculpting faces for 20 years. After taking this class, you will never look at faces the same way. Sharp tools, note taking materials, and imagination required.
Tools needed:
Kevlar safety glove
A sharp rough out and detail knives
Palm gouges that range in sizes from small (2mm - 5mm), medium (8mm to 12mm), and large (16mm to 25mm), in sweeps of 3 (shallow), 5, 7, 9, and 11 (No mallet tools!)
Flexcut soft V, pair of dividers, note taking materials
Instructor will supply hand-out training aids, angle guides, carving boards and stropping station, as well as sealer, varnish and antiquing supplies and brushes.
Cost of cottonwood bark from Canada to be determined.
This is a fun and functional cedar bark basket for all levels of experience. All the native plant materials for use by students have all been respectfully gathered and prepared by JoAnn and George Hart of Seabeck, Washington. JoAnn is a generous teacher who will guide students through learning how to do 2-strand twining, a design technique called overlaying, and weaving and shaping without using a mold. This beautiful basket will be finished with a common traditional Pacific Northwest rim. Gathering and preparation of materials will be discussed.
Learn Pat's technique for carving & painting happier looking Santa's. Her project this year is from an Old World Santa roughout approx. 12 inches tall. Instruction includes her step-by-step process focusing on facial detail, hair and beard texturing. This class will also include painting techniques which bring this carving to life.
Tools: Safety glove, your favorite knives, palm tools including various veiners, gouges & v-tools (No Power), light if desired.
Pat will supply paint & brushes for students to share, however if you have favorite brushes feel free to bring your own.
Cost of Class Materials: $35.00, which includes the prep material for painting, paints & roughout.