| General Information |
| Instructors for 2010 Academy. |
| 2010 Registration Form |
This class will be Thursday/Friday to allow students to also take Marin's chip-carving class on Mon.-Wed. If enough students apply, we'll have a second wood burning class Thurs-Friday. The two day class will be for beginner and intermediate levels. Class cost is $90 per student. I will have several patterned projects available for students: floral and basic patterns for the novice. Bird, animal, landscape, and floral for the intermediate. We plan on completing two projects in the class. You will learn the basic wood burning techniques: preparing wood, outlining, shading, highlighting, and finishing. Practice "buddy boards" transfer paper and 400 grit sanding pads are furnished. Project wood, 1/8" Poplar, will be availabe from me at $2.00/panel. Basswood ovals and planks are also available.
Each class is limited to ten students. The class is scheduled for July 15-16. A second class would be available on July 12-13, depending on sign up demand. Plan on having a good time in a fun-filled and informative class.
Go to "Read More" for the tools and supplies list.
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| Roger Storey with his Red-tailed Hawk |
Roger Storey is recently retired after a 36 year career as a metal fabrication shop owner and manager in Spokane. Along with an engineering and art background, he also has enjoyed working with wood. He has been woodburning seriously for the past five years. His pyrography work has been entered in carving shows in Washington and Montana since 2006, receiving several Best of Division awards and one Best of Show award. Roger has been teaching pyrography since 2007 and is always expanding his original patterns. Several of his students have ribboned in recent carving shows.
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| Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit |
Floyd Rhadigan is from Clinton, MI. He's been carving for 40 years and teaching for 35.
He's a member (& President elect !) of the Caricature Carvers of America. He will bring more than 60 basswood roughouts for students to choose from: Cowboys, Indians, Santas, Elves, Dragons and many others. The price for the roughouts is $12- $25. You will truly enjoy this class.
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Dan Patterson is an award winning artist and instructor who works in many mediums, wood being one of his favorites, and Fish being his favorite subject. His woodcarvings of fish have won numerous top honors at show and competitions. He is a National Fish Carvers Guild instructor and also serves as the NFCG President. Dan is well known in the fish carving community, and an excellent instructor and Judge. Dan teaches the latest carving and painting techniques in his classes, and offers a wealth of knowledge, new carving methods, tips and tricks. You can take this opportunity to greatly accelerate your learning curve in carving and painting fish.
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| Kern River golden trout |
The class subject is power carving and painting the Kern River golden trout. The fish will be a pre-cutout along with the fins and students will receive copies of the pattern. Other informational houndout materials and Paint schedule will be provided for your personal use. The fish will be about 10 inches long with all the beautiful colors attributed to this species. Students may construct their display habitat and base prior to the class if they prefer. Time will not be available during class. The student will have a beautiful, realistic carving of a Kern River Golden Trout that they can be proud of and enjoy for many years.
Required is a good rotary machine such as Foredom, RAM or NSK, along with your favoirte knives and other hand tools. Please bring your dust collector....Painting will be done by hand brushing, so no air compressor is needed. Some paint will be provided....A detailed tools and materials check-list will be sent to you a month prior to the class. There will be an additional minimum materials charge for the fish cutout.
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| Poindexter's Black-Headed Grosbeak |
This Black-headed Grosbeak is the bird chosen for the "Best in the Northwest" purchase award in Vancouver, WA for this coming September! Come and carve your first one in July, in Jerry Poindexter's class.
Glass eyes and Tupelo cutouts will be provided. (Students, no worries. If you lack something we will share, and if I've forgotten something, Bring it!)
Bring the following equipment to class: (available from Cascade Carvers Supply, but if you want to buy it at the show, be sure to let us know so we have enough, such as the dust collectors.)
- A power carver: Foredom, Geswin, NSK, etc.
- Bit box with bits used to carve birds.
- Extension cord, power bar/multi-plug adaptor
- A light
- Woodburner and tips
- Ruler(millimeters), dividers/compass
- Your glasses, hair dryer, pencils and epoxy putty for setting eyes
- dust collector is required.
- Pain stick, base, paint brushes (#2 and #4)round or filbert
- Water conatiners, paper towel and palette of some sort.
- Paint colors: Acrylic : gesso, lemon yellow, yellow lt., raw sienna, burnt sienna, burnt umber, raw umber, ivory black and titanium white.
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Jerry Poindexter is a local carver-artist who has demonstrated expert excellence in highly textured songbirds, game birds, shorebirds and birds of prey as well as an being an advanced carver of decorative fish. He has participated in local woodcarving shows, International Wildlife carving shows, and has ribboned many times, including at the Ward World Championships in Ocean City, Maryland. Jerry has provided seminars and workshops on carving, painting and building habitat. His highly textured birds are owned by private collectors in the United States and Europe. Students will learn anatomy, carving and painting techniques for all levels.
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| Charley's Sunflower. |
The Class subject will be "How to Carve and Paint a different variety of flower each day." Several project choices of that flower variety will be available each day, with prices varying from $10-$20 for the roughout. Student may start a new floral project every day. There will be demo on how to paint the floral project at the close of each class. Students need to bring pen and paper to take notes during the painting demo. See tool list under "Read More."
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Charley Phillips is known for her delicate floral carvings on many practical and useful items such as signs, dresser boxes and mirror frames. A decorative painter for many years, she turned to woodcarving in 1995. Her work has won awards in several regional woodcarving shows. She has written articles for "Woodcarving illustrated" featuring her unique floral relief carving projects.
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DESCRIPTION: Carve a Great Horned Owl – ¼ Life-size sitting on a Tree stump. This project will be carved from a Roughout using hand & palm tools (NO POWER). Most of the fine detail is done with a detail knife & 2-3mm veiners & v-tools. The size of the project is approximately 3 x 4 x 10”.
COST: $250.00 per student. This 5 day class includes a Roughout, pattern and the use of Pats paints & brushes.
CLASS SIZE: This class is limited to ten students on a first come first serve basis. A waiting list will be established beyond the ten people in case of any cancellations.
SUGGESTED MATERIALS: Bring your favorite carving knives, hand & palm tools, including small 2-3mm veiners & v-tools. Carving glove & light if desired.
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| Pat Moore |
Pat Moore has been involved in woodcarving & sculpting for over 28 years. As an instructor she travels throughout the U.S. teaching seminars & sharing her techniques. She is both a gifted Carver and Painter, winning several "Best of Shows" with her realistic miniature wildlife pieces.
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| 36 Inch NorthWest Paddle |
Here in the NorthWest the terrain, the weather, and stories from history all sing of the Native cultures that flourished here, for those who listen. The Indians weren't living in WA or OR, but rather were coastal, including our lands in a swath of land, and a heritage, that goes up through Canada and Alaska. Studying the art of the Northwest Natives will open a door to large new perspectives and interests to pursue. This year, Joe McConnel will open that subject for you in his class.
A list of tools and supplies will show up here soon.
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| Joe McConnell with his Moon Mask |
Joe McConnell has been carving Northwest Native-Style relief and 3-dimensional pieces since 1988 and has received numerous awards at local and regional carving shows including Best of Show. His carvings include Mask, Bowls, Rattles, Warrior Helmets, Paddles and Totem Poles.
Since January 2001, he has been teaching this form of woodcarving five times a week at his studio in Sammamish WA. Students start with little, if any, carving experience and range in age from teens to seniors. Currently, Joe and some of his students are carving a Totem Pole in Yellow Cedar.
Recently, at the November NW Woodcarvers Show Joe’s students won several First Place and Best of Division ribbons as well as Best Novice, Best Beginner and BEST of SHOW.
When not teaching, Joe works on commission pieces for both corporate and private collectors. Currently he is carving a second Totem Pole in Red Cedar for a client.
To see carvings by Joe and his students, please visit his web site at: www.beaverlakewoodworks.org
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| Winebottle holder |
- 1- chip carving knife.
- Ceramic sharpening stones. 600/1800 grit (Grey and White) or what you use normally
- T-Square
- Mechanical Pencil
- Graphite paper to transfer patterns.
- Wine Bottle holder Blank.
- Practice Board
- Compass
- A White Eraser
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| Second Best of Show Award |
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| Doug's class will do a Realistic Bear |
Let’s carve a wonderful, action packed project of a standing or sitting Grizzly Bear. We will create a habitat for mounting this project as well. This is a great study in realistic techniques, creating action, habitat and presentation of your project. Join me for a fun and informative week of artistry in wood.
The following are things that you will want to bring: I suggest these and if you have similar tools and/or bits, bring them along and they'll work just fine. Cascade Carvers can supply items that you are missing. Now click on READ MORE for a list of supplies to bring.
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| Doug Harrison at work. |
Doug Harrison is an award-winning international judge, author, instructor and master wildlife carvers. He has many successful years of instructing the carving of realistic animals, birds and fish. He has written the featured "Best of the West" article for "Chip Chats" and has sat on the Board of Directors for the National Woodcarvers' Association. He is co-founder of Yakima Regional Woodcarvers club, and he owns and operates a wood carving school in Yakima, WA.
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I carve relief and "in-the-round" caricatures and realistic. My subject matter ranges from dragons and wizards to animals, human faces, beggars and bag ladies, Santas, characters from American folklore, fairy tales from the brothers Grimm and fables from Aesop.
I don't use grinders or wood-burning tools or chainsaws. I don't do anatomically correct fish and birds, nor am I drawn to the geometric perfection of chip carving. I seldom use sandpaper on my carvings, but rather prefer to see the facdts left by hand tools. I avoid shiny, plastic looking finishes, and always try to leave no dout that the piece is hand-made from real wood.
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Jeff will teach human busts in cottonwood bark. He has a new source of excellent bark, and new designs.
Jeff Harness: I think I have always been a wood carver, it just took me 37 years to complete my first project. Born in Branson, MO and raised between the Ozarks and rural mid-west, I lived always enjoyed art class, sketching and painting with an occasional detour into pottery and sculpture. After a tour of duty in USAF, and career as a computer hardware design engineer, I found that I needed a creative outlet; something to add balance to my life and provide some relief from the analytical world. One year my wife, Barbara, gave me a beginning woodcarving tool set, a book and a large block of sugar pine. With no knowledge of tool sharpening, I was soon frustrated and it all went into the bedroom closet until two years later when my Christmas gift was a certificate for a woodcarving class. Acting on a whim, my dull tools and I attended the class. In only a few hours my teacher introduced me to wood grain, stop cuts with knives, rounding with gouges and chisels, scoring and detailing with V tools, and stropping. The last ten years has proven to be a continuing adventure, with lessons, trips to woodcarving shows, projects in sugar pine, basswood, walnut, butternut, Alaskan yellow cedar, cypress knees and cottonwood bark.
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Here is Desi's project for 2010, and it is otters.
Time after time she comes up with the best thing one can imagine, and here they are again.
We'll add a material list, and roughout cost soon.
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Desi is a power carver who instructs all over the country all year long, and her students benefit from her accumulated skills. This year she's offering Otters as her carving subject. We'll have a picture soon.
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There will be several types of wood available for purchase. Students will need their own chisels, knives and shaping equipment. Tom will bring a drill and burning sticks for the holes. A plain block will be provided for the chamber set up, but other pieces of wood will be made available for purchase, should someone want to go out on a limb and create their own stylized block.
Basic plan is the first day we will go over the history of the flute and some of the styles that have been made. We will discuss the process of the build and any and all safety concerns and then we will start by setting the intent for each flute and begin the layout. If everything goes well we will start on one of the chambers.
On the second day we will complete the carving of the chambers, ensure that they are round and sanded on the inside and then seal them. At that point we will start building the ramps and fipple/sound hole.. this may go into the second day depending on the process.
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Hello my name is Tom Duke . I'll be offering a class to make flutes.
I was born in the northwest yet raised throughout the United States. My father was and artist and my mother was a beautiful, talented woman that believed in life and all that it had to offer.
My love for art took me to the School of Visual Concepts in Seattle, WA where I started to enhance my creativity through classes by Dick and Cherry Brown. I left the school after two years giving up the idea of becoming an art director and set out to open a gallery, work the shows in the NW and pursue new possibilities.
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Janet Clemens has been carving since 1994 when a friend signed her up for a carving class. As soon as she touched a piece of wood with a tool she found her passion and has never looked back. The first thing she carved was a very primitive Santa and this lead to a reputation as a Santa carver. "Woodcarving Illustrated" has featured her in the magazine after she became recognized in their first Santa carving contest.
After carving for about two years she began to teach classes around the Northwest. As a teacher for 13 years now, she has developed skills to be able to teach whatever her students want to carve.
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| These fabrics will be used in the Christmas throw |
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The project for the coming quilting class will be a 55 1/2" x 76" Christmas throw. I am planning this class for up to eight students. Class charge : $150.00 per student (Limited to eight students.)
Cost includes the 55 ½” x 76” Christmas Throw Quilt Kit. Does not include backing, batting or binding which will be furnished by the student. This is an easy quilt to make if you need a quick project and the pattern is flexible and can be applied to a number of different themes.
Supply list under "Read More."
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Hello fellow quilters. My name is Darlene DeWitt and I live in Walla Walla, Washington. I have always had a passion for sewing and in 1999, with the help of my quilting mother-in-law, I made my first quilt. I was hooked!
Over the years I have experienced various types of quilting including appliqué, paper piecing, and “quilt-as-you-go”. Projects have included wall hangings, throws, quilts, pillows, and decorative items. I have also discovered that I enjoy sharing my quilting experience with other quilters.
In addition to quilting my hobbies include gardening, camping, traveling and spending time with our children and grandchildren.