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I was hoping to update our website and add this and a small blurb about what we (Sue Chrestensen and I) call "cross training". Just as with sports, "cross training" helps us get better at our primary discipline... in this case, creating. Learning to use woodburning, carving, and even an airbrush will accentuate any project we create with the scrollsaw.
Sue has previously played with converting Lora Irish's carving designs into scrolling (segmentation or intarisa) patterns which were published in a previous issue of SSWC. So when I was reading through the current issue of Wood Carving Illustrated, and came across this fellow, he caught both of our attention.
I am trying to learn to carve. The entire process will take me a long time to learn. In part because I AM A SCROLLER, yet I appreciate qualities found in carving. So, as I traced this Lora Irish pattern on some basswood to play with, Sue took a copy into the shop and did our "cross training" on the design.
This is what she came out with. This photo shows how you can incorporate some of the qualities of carving into your segmentation/intarisa and add some fine definition. Leaving it all the one wood, makes it appear to be carved, even close up.
Next time you are looking at a pattern, think of what you could do to it with some "cross training" to bring out some features.
Take care
Toni
Sue has previously played with converting Lora Irish's carving designs into scrolling (segmentation or intarisa) patterns which were published in a previous issue of SSWC. So when I was reading through the current issue of Wood Carving Illustrated, and came across this fellow, he caught both of our attention.
I am trying to learn to carve. The entire process will take me a long time to learn. In part because I AM A SCROLLER, yet I appreciate qualities found in carving. So, as I traced this Lora Irish pattern on some basswood to play with, Sue took a copy into the shop and did our "cross training" on the design.
This is what she came out with. This photo shows how you can incorporate some of the qualities of carving into your segmentation/intarisa and add some fine definition. Leaving it all the one wood, makes it appear to be carved, even close up.
Next time you are looking at a pattern, think of what you could do to it with some "cross training" to bring out some features.
Take care
Toni
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). The thing is you need to cut across the grain when you're shaping wood, don't you? Otherwise you'd just be cutting grooves.
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