November 13 is your last opportunity to pre-order my Carving the Acanthus Leaf book through Lost Art Press and receive a free downloadable pdf file of the entire book for free. After November 13, the pdf file will be available for separate purchase. Also, I am having a raffle to give away resin castings of […]
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Enter to win FREE resin castings of acanthus leaves
To help celebrate completing my Carving the Acanthus Leaf book, I am giving away 5 different resin castings of several of the leaves I show how to carve in my book. For the next 5 weeks, I will be giving away a separate resin casting each week, starting October 25. Drawings will take place each […]
Preview a FREE Chapter of my Carving the Acanthus Leaf Book
Pre-Ordering is now available! The printed book will be available toward the end of November, but if you pre-order you can have access to a downloadable pdf file of the entire book immediately. What the heck is this “Acanthus Leaf” thing? To help you get an idea of what my new book, Carving the Acanthus Leaf, […]
Carving the Acanthus Leaf – Now Available for Pre-Order
After 3 years, I am excited to announce that I have finally given birth to my first bouncing baby book (not such a baby at over 300 pages) on Carving the Acanthus Leaf. It was an agonizingly long gestation period, but don’t they say you forget about the pain, once the child is born? Odd, […]
142 Full-Length Lessons now on My Online Carving School
Have you wandered through my Online School of Traditional Woodcarving lately? Learn more about me, Mary May, and find out why I ventured down this meandering road of creating an online carving school over 5 years ago. There have been a lot of recent changes and upgrades to my school with new and helpful features – […]
Reproduction of an American Rococo Fireplace
Every once in a while a project comes along that cannot easily be explained with words. So I am going to let the photographs explain better than any feeble attempt at words to share this amazing reproduction fireplace experience. Several months ago, Moby Marks of Richard Marks Restorations here in Charleston, South Carolina, invited me to join them on […]