December, 2011

Another update on carving a man’s head

December 30, 2011 MaryMay Carving faces

Well, I am slowly getting to the final “personality” of the man’s head that I am carving for a keystone. The client wants a particular mood that is “regal”, “authoritative”, “classic”. He said the last photos were too placid and that he looked like a guy who just walked out of the woods of Minnesota. [...]

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More on Carving a man’s head

December 26, 2011 MaryMay Carving faces

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. I certainly did. Christmas Eve we had a little gathering here at my house and sang Christmas Carols and ate a lot of junk food. Christmas morning we all went over to my mother-in-laws house and she cooked a wonderful breakfast and we all went into their “Christmas [...]

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Carving a College Emblem on a sign

December 19, 2011 MaryMay College Sign

I just got back Saturday from working in Tunkhannock, PA for the past week. A very talented stone carving friend, Wayne Ferree (www.ferreestudios.com) invited me to help him finish a woodcarving project he took on for a college. It was a real brain tease, and I’m pretty exhuasted. I look back at the first photos [...]

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Carving wooden faces

December 11, 2011 MaryMay Carving faces

I worked on carving a face in wood over the past few days. I had originally worked on this in stone and found the shape I wanted. I still have a ways to go with the hair on both the stone and wood, but I’m getting closer to the face expression I am looking for. This [...]

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Finishing reeded legs

December 8, 2011 MaryMay Carving Reeds

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    Here is one of the finished leg with hand-carved reeds. Lots of exciting work coming up in the next few months. 3 more shell niches for a home in Louisville, KY. These will be 32″ wide x 16″ tall x 12″ deep. I’ll be continuing working on carving the faces. Hopefully tomorrow I [...]

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Carving reeds

December 6, 2011 MaryMay Carving Reeds

(I made a previous post and mistakedly called this carving “flutes”. I get to use the excuse that my carving teacher was Greek – it’s all greek to me?) I have a project at the moment where I am hand-carving reeds on a turned leg. It would take longer to set up a router jig [...]

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Ball and Claw Carving Class

December 4, 2011 MaryMay Woodcarving classes

  I had a great weekend teaching how to carve the Ball and Claw foot at Woodcraft Supply in Greenville, SC. Two of the students had not carved before, and as you can see from the photograph, everyone did a great job. It was nice that it was a small class and that I had a [...]

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Carving faces

December 1, 2011 MaryMay Carving faces

I have a very interesting job to do. My client is restoring an older Charleston home downtown. He is wanting carved keystones in wood at the peak of some of the arches in the interior of the house. He is wanting classic style faces carved into these keystones. Well, he wants a particular “mood” on [...]

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Mary May – Woodcarver

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