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Carving the Acanthus Leaf Book with Videos and Study Casts

January 15, 2018 / Mary May / Acanthus book, Acanthus Leaves, Wood Carving Tips

My new book, Carving the Acanthus Leaf, has been available for purchase since November from Lost Art Press (yay!). You can also view my Carving the Acanthus Leaf page on my website to learn more. I recently made the casual comment “I just finished my first book”. My husband responded “you mean there’s more?” I […]

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Preview a FREE Chapter of my Carving the Acanthus Leaf Book

October 9, 2017 / Mary May / Acanthus book, Acanthus Leaves, Book Review

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, […]

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Carving the Acanthus Leaf – Now Available for Pre-Order

September 29, 2017 / Mary May / Acanthus book, Acanthus Leaves, Wood Carving Tips

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, […]

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Reproduction of an American Rococo Fireplace

April 26, 2017 / Mary May / Acanthus Leaves, Antique furniture reproduction, Wood Carving Tips

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 […]

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Learn to carve the Amazing Acanthus Leaf

January 13, 2017 / Mary May / Acanthus book, Acanthus Leaves, Wood Carving Education, Wood Carving Tips

I will be teaching a weekend class on how to carve the Amazing Acanthus Leaf at Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking, March 4 & 5. This class is open to all experience levels – from brand-new carvers to those who have carved for many years. We will cover a lot in this class, starting from […]

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Looking back at 2016…

January 4, 2017 / Mary May / Acanthus book, Acanthus Leaves, Antique furniture reproduction, Online carving school, Wood Carving Education

2016 was an amazing year! It was active with teaching at a variety of different schools around the country, keeping up with filming and adding a new instructional video each week to my online school, and finishing writing a book on Carving the Acanthus Leaf. Yes, it was a crazy, busy, but incredible year. I love to […]

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