Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Carving A Cowboy Head – Part 6 – Ears & Eyebrows

With this we finish up the ears and start fiddling with the eyebrows. 

We also start adding some distinctive features to the face.

8 comments:

  1. Lynn,

    Help! I can't get into the new video.

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  2. me neither.......it seems to be private......
    ...Thanks Lynn for all ypour time and effort....I know for a fact I know more today about carving than I did yesterday. lol
    Jim

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  3. Looks like we're all so anxious that we didn't give poor Lynn enough time to actually finish and upload the next video before we...er...ah...well, I...complained that I couldn't access it.

    Lynn, you put a couple of videos up and ya got everybody impatiently clamoring for the next installment!!! :-)

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  4. Lynn, I suggest you give up on the 5 minute limit and go with showing the process in the steps that make sense to you. Be it 5 min or 11 min. Just my 2 cents -
    Ron

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  5. This is a great step by step process. Your carving have such amazing detail. I even had a chance to see a few up close at the KC show really wonderful carvings.

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  6. Lynn: Just spent 3 hours viewing your 5 videos....Fantstic!!!!

    The time it took was at first "excruciatingly painful"...ha! as my high-speed internet would download 8 seconds of carving action, then freeze frame for 13 seceonds as it downloaded some more and then show me another 8 seconds of action, etc. (I had alot of time to time all this), but once completely downloaded in this stop/go action venue I could then hit play again and watch the video run thru in its uninterupted sequence. Then it dawnwed on me, during the freeze frame portions I could take notes....and viewing became even more interesting. Thus I was watching each segment twice and hence 3 hours of viewing. But, the bottom line is(like one other viewer said),I now know more about carving and technique than I ever did before.

    I hope you'll put these seperate videos on one continuous dvd so we can purchaase them (even bring them to the Dayton Show to sell), as I'd buy one in a heaertbeat.

    I'm even going to dig out one of my box cutters in my tool drawer (I have 3 of those old metal ones) and give your knife carving style a try. You make using it look easy and fun.

    Looking forward to the next installment(s) and hope you'll consider puting this caricature on a body of some kind and showing us how you go about doing that too.

    And finaly thanx for sharing your talent & artistry. You're the best!

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  7. Lynn Great video's. Do you just chuck the blades from Ole Faithful once they get dull or do you sharpen them or buff them??
    Curt

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  8. Thank you so much for doing these video teachings. You saved me a trip out to your ranch where I would have slept outside your gate, offered to sweep the workshop, clean the stalls, mend the broken fences; whatever I had to do to watch your technique and learn. I loved watching as you say...let the character out of the block of wood. Again, another example of how the wood carving community loves to share and teach. Thanx, Rik from New Jersey!!!

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