[Thomp]

Thomp:
How about a really fine pigment pen? My wife has some she gets at Michael's Crafts - they come in several finenesses of point and many colors. I've used them to sign my name on carvings - they have pigmented ink and will draw on any painted surface.

Claude

Claude,
i got some of them pens, and as far as size the ultra fine is so big in scale

as to compair it in realtime life like drawing with a non sharpened broom handle. the place where i want to work is smaller than my thumbnail maybe a scoche more,
i was thinking about art quill type pens you dip in ink, as they are some of them that are really super fine and eaisly make hair line size marks.
or just using a needle.

but i think it may be more work than that is worth,

i been working on throw off projects, while i figer this one out...

[AlArchie]

Thomp, this is REALLY SPOOKY. I just opened your picture with the attached paper neckerchief, and had a heart stopping moment. I don't know if you read my earlier post and pictures I put up of a good friend, Roy Haeger, who passed away a ways back, but when I looked at the carving you did, there was Roy, staring back at me.......wow! I even got my wife in to look at it and asked her if it was anyone we knew, and without even thinking, she said Roy Haeger.

Anyway, I saved the picture to my files and if you don't mind, I'll print it out and bring it to our carving club, where Roy was VP and very active. Let me know.

Al

[Thomp]

Originally Posted by AlArchie

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Anyway, I saved the picture to my files and if you don't mind, I'll print it out and bring it to our carving club, where Roy was VP and very active. Let me know.

Al

Al,
I got no problem with you doing that with the pictures... glad i could make his likeness accidently

theres probally a resin cast of it already floating around china, this morning.

Thats weird, he has been haunting me im asorbed in fixing a cowtown for this and other planned figures, i was making bob wire lastnight.

also look on the blog http://thompsblog.blogspot.com/ i posted other pictures there if you dont find um tell me,
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Glad I could help Thomp,

That is a really nice job on the carving, wish I was that good.

Bill

thanks for the help and the nice complement on the carving bill, but i'm my worst critic. and i see it for its problems.
But i do love that hat! it came out like i wanted it. Perfectly shaped...

in the critical eye we all see the mona lesa and in our minds we think, "heck i could have painted that," but in reality......`?

i find fault with everything especally my planning phase.
its been a real hoot, carving this little dude. and a hard learning experiance....

i dont know actually whoos pattern it is, as it was sent to me, but even with a pattern for a rough out theres still some planning necessary. becuse of the details get lost in the bulk, and you have to use artistic license to bring back the negative as best as you can, for instance the nose on this one gave me fitz, it was as wide as his head, then blocked out, i didnt finely come down with the size until after i gave it the second coat of paint.

I should have planned the size more to accomidate what tools i use.. with 4 palm gouges and several exacto blades mounted in wooden handles and a chip knife. about all i have that i like I got lots of cheap one cut then hone gouges and v grove tools i obtained over the years but they are too much trouble.

i make doo with brass pin tubing for making impressions when i need them. for buttons or eye brow, eye orbits & eyeballs as well as shaping the ears,

i did a little sanding with small strips of p320a wet dry to defuzz and work in the armpits to remove splinters.
this carature is posted on the site listed in above here, i hope to find more time to edit the steps and tell whats going on in the pics in the evolution of the near finished back to a block of wood with a paper stuck to it.
kinda backwards but thats how the blog worked.
well ive rambled enough
thanks to all again..
thomp