[papasar]

I'm feeling a little lonely. There must be some chip or relief
carvers out there!
How about posting in the carver's gallery.
Bill K.

[Carvity_Carve]

Yeah, the relief and chip carving board doesn't get much activity, does it? I've only been chip carving for a little while, so I don't have much to show anyway. I'm still in the learning process of getting those chips out all nice and neat. Perhaps I should take a break from golf balls and do some more of that.

[KettleKarver]

I'm one of those relief carvers you're looking for. I'm just not very prolific. I posted a photo in the gallery under the relief section. Its a stylized fish done in Basswood. Its from one of Chris Pye's books.

Jim

[papasar]

Thanks KettleKarver! I feel the relief already!!

[Chahlie]

Hi papasar,

I posted a relief carving in my album at web shots...still haven't decided how to finish it ...paint or natural. Take a look if you want.

Chahlie

[Irish]

Hi Chahlie, Hey Everyone,

Chahlie, the rose is wonderful. I love the depth inside the flower cup and have a real sense of how the petals are wrapped and folded around that central cup. Very nicely done!!!!

I do have a small problem that your rose has only one leaf. Now, this is my opinion, so take what you want and leave the rest behind! Right now you have a very well developed, large flower mass at the top of the work but very little mass below that flower area. I personnally would add just a few leaf groupings to the lower section to balance out the weight distribution of the carving.

Rose leaves come in sets of three, five or seven leaflets radiating off a leaf stem. They do not come directly from the rose stem. Notice that the leaflet has one top centered leaf then pairs of leaves running down the leaf stem.

If it were me ... again, please, this is just what I would do. ...I would add a couple leaflet stems to that lower section. I would carve them very shallow into the background. Very-Very low relief maybe around an 1/8" or less. This would give you a strong constrast to that well developed flower and make the flower jump out further from the work.

Susan Irish

[Irish]

Originally Posted by papasar

I'm feeling a little lonely. There must be some chip or relief
carvers out there!
How about posting in the carver's gallery.
Bill K.

Hey Bill? Dumb question here! But being new to this forum ... Where is the Carver's Gallery?

Thanks, Susan

[squbrigg]

Haven't done a lot of relief lately, but posted a couple of my early efforts in relief. Sorry.............but they're typical sailing views.......it's what I am, just an old sailor.

Bob

[squbrigg]

Susan....look in the menu to the left, under Carving Community....."Carvers Gallery". Point and click!

Bob

[Irish]

Bob ... Well, DUH!

!!!!!

Susan