Who Are Your Favorite Carvers ?

[carvnman40]

A couple of my favorites are Floyd Scholz and Greg Woodard. This was my original reply but my reply got rejected for being too short ( not 10 characters) ? So after the first sentence, the rest is just filler. Hope I make it this time.

Mike

[K Karver]

This is an updated list from those who have added other names.

K Karver

Originally Posted by K Karver

In order of when I had them as teachers:

Harold Enlow, Peter Ortel, Phil and Vicki Bishop.

In order of when I would like to sit under them:

Marv Kaisersatt, Jeff Phares, Harley Refsal, Fred Cogelow,Tom Wolfe

A collected list from the posts in this thread: * means no additional site/email found
1. Shirley Adler - spoon carving; *
2. ian agrell -decorative, teacher; Ian Agrell Master Woodcarver -Agrell Architectural Carving
3. Mark Akers - caricature etc. see this forum; Home
4. Andy Anderson - caricature/western; ANDY ANDERSON GALLERY
5. Johan Amrud - Norwegian style, decorative; *
6. Wayne Barton - chip carving; Wayne Barton and The Alpine School of Wood Carving
7. Calvin Berry *
8. Phil Bishop - caricature/western/more; BISHOPS WOODCARVING PHIL & VICKI BISHOP; CCAe
9. Vicki Bishop - caricature/western/more; BISHOPS WOODCARVING PHIL & VICKI BISHOP; CCA
10. Trent Bosch - turner; Trent Bosch
11. David Boone - eboone15@verizon.net; CCA
12. Rick Butz - Adirondack carver, teacher, variety; *
13. Deborah Call - holiday, animals, variety; Deborah L. Call - Sculptures in Wood (Wood Carvings)
14. Mitchell Cartledge - see this forum, chess sets; *
15. Paul Emil Caron *
16. Shawn Cipa - Santas, Walking sticks, wood spirits and more; Home Page Shawn Cipa-Woodcarver; hand carved santas, walking sticks, wood spirits, more
17. Janet Denton Cordell - dolls, figures, teacher; PictureTrail
18. Neil Cox - human figure, see Son of Ottawa; Neil Z. Cox
19. Ron Davidson - relief; Ron_Davidson
20. Mike Davies - British, love spoons etc.; *
21. Joe Dillet - relief, religious; The Carving Shop
22. Doris - see this forum
23. Streda Doss *
24. Lynn Doughty - caricature, western
25. PJ Driscoll - caricature, new CCA member
26. Dave Dunham - Caicature carver, CCA
27. Sande Elkins - Whimsical art and more
28. Harold Enlow - Ozark, caricature
29. John Engler - relief, teacher; Woodcarving products and woodcarving classes-John Engler
30. Gary Falin - CCA
31. Rick Ferry - rick@littleshavers.com
32. Gerard Fortin *
33. Buryl Franks - Tulsa, OK
34. Mark Gargac - http://www.gargacsoriginals.com
35. Grinling Gibbons
36. Pat Godin
37. Nancy Goff - Santas
38. Allen Goodman*
39. Goody aka Harold Goodman - Folk style - on the board
40. Desiree Hajny -CCAe;Desiree Hajny wildlife & animal sculptures, statues, figurines by Mill Creek Studios.
41. Bill Higginbotham *
42. Anthony Hillman - decoys and birds; http://www.HillmanArt.com
43. Vic Hood - Human busts, large;
44. Chris Howard
45. Bill Hayden - caricatures; Will Hayden Wood Carving
46. Lora S. (Susan) Irish - relief
47. Emil Janel
48. Bob Jahrling *
49. Rusty Johnson - Tulsa, OK
50. Bill Judt - relief carving
51. Marv Kaisersatt - caricature/other amazing stuff; Marv Kaisersatt; CCA
52. Pete LeClair - caricature;www.ieasysite.com/caricaturecarver; CCA
53. Stu Martin - western, Santa etc
54. Gene Messer - see this forum
55. Mieto - sculptor
56. Dennis Moor
57. Rich Notto - chip carving
58. Jon Nelson - teacher, caricature, etc
59. Ian Norbury - sculptor
60. Jan Oegema - chip, caricature, figures
61. Dick Onians - human figures
62. Peter Ortel - caricature; CCAe
63. Jeff Phares - human figure, face, Indian, bark; Jeff Phares
64. Binh Pho - turner
65. Jack Price - little guys; CCAe
66. Chris Pye -great variety
67. Floyd Rhadigan - caricature; Home*** News & Notes*** Shows &; CCA
68. Harley Refsal - flat plane; http://www.cca-carvers.org/refsal.html; CCAe
69. Tilman Riemenschneider - Medieval carver - Google his name.
70. Bob Robertson - sculptor, wood, bronze, other. Great web site.
71. Giuseppe Rumerio - sculptor - web site well worth viewing.
72. Frank Russell - power carving birds, animals, human figure
73. David Sabol - wildlife; David Sabol Wildlife Sculptures; CCA
74. Floyd Scholz - bird carver; Floyd Scholz, Master Bird Carver, carving and painting birds of prey
75. Harry Schmitgen
76. Wayne Shinlever - caricature, animals, holiday; Page 1
77. Mike Shipley - Ozark, bears, caricature, sea captain, ...
78. Gerald/Barb Sears - caricature, western;http://www.cca-carvers.org/sears.html; CCA
79. Arnold Smith - see this forum; *
80. Dave Stetson- caricature; http://www.cca-carvers.org/stetson.html; CCA
81. E.J. Tangermann
82. Cleve Taylor - caricature, faces, mountain men, cowboys; Cleve Taylor; CCAe
83. C.O. Trygg and family - Scandinavian flat plane; Carl Olaf Trygg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
84. Elma Waltner caricature animals; *
85. Joe Wannamaker - caricature, holiday; CCA
86. J Christopher White - Parables in Wood; the wood sculpture and poetry of j christopher white
87. Ivan Whillock - sculptor, writer, teacher; Artist Ivan Whillock
88. Fred Wilbur - architectural, decorative; Professional Traditional Architectural Fine Woodcarving Custom Hand Carved Wood Ornaments Woodcarver
89. John Williams
90. Spirit Williams - relief carving; About Spirit Williams, expert wood sculptor
91. Bart Wilson - wood-whittler this forum; *
92. Tom Wolfe - dogs, animals, canes, lots of other stuff....; *; CCA
93. Greg Woodard - bird carver; *
94. Hyung Jon Yong
95. Mark Yundt - on the board; Mark Yundt
96. Fred Zavadil - neat things this forum; Fred Zavadil - Home

And all the other great carvers we have on the forum. Looking forward to other names posted.

John K Karver

[K Karver]

I just had to get back on line since I saw how many people have checked this thread out. I can't believe that we have hit all the influential carvers out there. I am hoping that more of you add to the list as you check us out here. I have been having a great time googling the names I don't know and seeing some really nice carving. I could never do the bird work that Woodard and Scholz are doing but it sure is exciting to see what they are doing in wood. I am looking forward to more names being listed.

John K Karver

[Iowa Carver]

John, please add Mike Shipley to the list if you would. He is one of my picks in my original post.

Thanks,
Corey

[K Karver]

Will do Corey.

John K Karver

Originally Posted by Iowa Carver

John, please add Mike Shipley to the list if you would. He is one of my picks in my original post.

Thanks,
Corey

[Canopener]

Hi All,
I would just like to add my weird opinion.
Lately, I have been glued to my satalite radio and they have several shows about the basics of music we all love; back to the well, so to speak.
I think the foundation of caricature carving lies with, Andy Anderson, The Tryggs and their style, and Emil Janel, with his American Style of carving.
Notice that they are 3 distinct styles of carving.
The old "Dover Press" springboarded people like Harold Enlow [my favorite] Bill Higgenbotham and Elma Waltner, as well as others. Elma was the guy that carved those goofy animals but [after some fifty years] is still available today through "Fox Chapel, our benevolent sponser".
Simple, straight forward carving stuff.
Now we have moved on to a great many people that are the twigs and vines of those above, all of them great carvers; but I have only one carver to nominate as my favorite.
ME; and I am not even very good, in fact, the last time I checked, I was quite unhappy with my self for producing labor intensive firewood.
Tomorrow, I will go into the garage and do better. Maybe; I should close all of the books, they are not working, and just carve things the way I see them. We should sharpen the tools of our mind, and not just copy.
Well; I am starting to rant because my work is not going my way, but you all get the point.
Do your own thang.
Jim

[Jim OH]

My favorites include all of the above and the late Dave Dunham and the late Joe Wannamaker!
Jim OH

[susieq]

wow, this is harder than trying to name a favorite song....there are so many!
Historically, Grinding Gibbons.....

In the present, Ian Norbury, David Sabol, Fred Cogalow.......
The man who taught me to carve is someone nobody will have ever heard of, Bob Jahrling, here locally. Frank Russell has also taught me a lot.

Here on the forum, Santa carvers Nancy Goff and Deborah Call, Fred Zavadil, Mark Yundt, Lynn Doughty.....I know there are more and I will want to add to this as they come to me....my brain has started to shut down for the night.... The best chip carver I ever met was the late Rich Notto, the knife maker....awesome chip carver. My list will grow as I ponder this further....

I just remembered that this is the caraciture thread but the question was, "who is your favorite carver" and quite a few of the other posters have named carvers of all kinds...

[Thomp]

Its funny to most the way i look at this, well maybe but, i have been influenced by more carvers than i would want to count.

every carver that can use there tools holds ability to do things differently, i learn something here on this board daily sharing with the fellowship of the members here..

ive bought loads of books from the masters and learned little from them when compared with the free information that flows through these message bases daily..

thanks everyone for sharing

[Lenny]

Lots of names, but one that really influenced me is missing. Thru the class I took with him, his videos, his books, his ideas and style...Tom Wolfe probably is the biggest influence in my carving life.

A very close second is Gary Falin, a man I've taken several classes with and have learned so much from in the way of techniques and style.

Jack Price got me hooked on carving "Little Guys" which I still do from time to time.

Lots of great names mentioned.