[Sharon of the Dell]

He looks great! What type of paint did you use? I've never painted a carving before. Have one I'm thinking about painting.

[Jim OH]

Sharon, instructions for how I painted the Wizard: 1. Once carving finished I wash the carving in two drops of dishwashing soap in a cup of water, just scrub with a toothbrush and rinse off, do not soak carving. 2. Using Delta Ceramcoat acrylic paint paint lighter to darker colors, on mine I painted flesh with 2 drops paint in teaspoon of water mix well. 3 highlight flesh and wrinkles with 1 drop tomato spice in teaspoon water. 4. darken tomato spice color 1 shade and paint lips and bags under eyes. 5. Paint beard 3 drops quaker grey in 1 teaspoon water. 6. darken grey just 1 shade with black and paint all hair lines. 7. Paint cap pure blue 3 drops blue to 1 teaspoon water.8. Wipe off blue with a wet wrag. 9. Darken blue a little with small amount of black paint and paint hat wrinkles/folds. 10. Paint eyes with full strength paint, first paint entire eye area off white, then paint drop of black off to one side of eye area, paint inside black drop with eye color, paint inside eye color with smaller drop of black, place white highlight same place in each eye. Dry paint in between each eye painting step. Dry carving and dip in Boiled linessd oil, ket set 10 minutes and blot off any excess oil with all white paper towel.
Linseed oil flammable seal up paper towels in metal can or place outside in plastic bag for trash pickup. Let carving dry and you be done ;O). Experiment first to get a feel of how to paint without one color running into the next. Hope this was helpful. Jim OH

[Iowa Carver]

Nice Jim and Claude I second the info on how you did the eyes. Really nice job guys.

corey

[MelNM]

Nice carvings Claude and Jim, you did great.
Mel

[Sharon of the Dell]

Thankyou so much for the info Jim, It is very helpful. I have a little woodspirit I'm carving out of a cypress limb. Kind of messed him up trying to woodburn him.Sanded most of it off, but probably will try the paint to cover some mistakes up. Thanks again, Sharon

[Jim OH]

Sharon,
The instructions I sent were for basswood, not sure how that method will work on cypress. Also, using my method paint is very thin and probably won't cover up much if anything. Better try a little experimentation fore ya go painting ;O).
jim OH

[Claude]

Originally Posted by Iowa Carver

Nice Jim and Claude I second the info on how you did the eyes. Really nice job guys.

corey

Please give me a couple of days to take some photos - just got back tonight from some work-related travel...

Claude

[Iowa Carver]

Dang, I tried one of these tonight. Was feeling confident after a half way successful project this week and and then SMACK DOWN!

I just couldn't carve one of these for nothing. The nose/eye thing (step 5/6) is kicking my butt! Couldn't get it done tonight at all. Even turned one of the sticks into just 4 sections of that same step, couldn't get it. I will keep at it... I love these things!

Corey

[Tom H]

Corey,

To accomplish step 4/5 (nose & eyes) in the 5 minute wizard; think chip carving. The chip from each side of the nose is formed by the side of the nose, the bottom of the eye brow, the bottom of the cheek.

Place stop cuts on the side of the nose, and the top of the eye. To remove the chip framed by those 2 stop cuts, use the knife to slice up to the chip corner that is created by the 2 stop cuts. The chip that you remove from each side of the nose will leave a space for the eyes. After doing a few, you will want to refine the nose shape to your liking.

Hang in there, after the first successful one the rest will be easy...

Thanks for giving the wizard a try.

If you have any more trouble PM me, I'll send a sample of the cuts.

Tom H

[BobD]

Isn't it great to have Tom here to help out with these questions????

Thanks Tom!!! Feel free to post the photos here on the forum. If you need help, let me know. The forum can be a bit restrictive on number of uploads per day.

Bob