May 2024

Decoy Fish Wood Carving

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Is it too early to be talking about the Fourth of July?!?

 

Wood Carving Fish Decoys

Ice Fishing Fish Decoy Gallery

 

Ice Fishing Decoy Gallery Two

Burning & Carving Fish

Sun Fish Decoy

 

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Burning and Carving Fish – Free pattern included
Wood Carved Ice Fishing Decoys

Pages: Learn how to wood carve your own Ice Fishing Decoy, a free wood carving project by Lora S Irish. Folk art fish decoys can become much more than realistic wood carvings of minnows and fishing bait.  This gallery of wood carvings by Lora Irish offers more samples of what you could do with your own whittled fish decoy.

Ice Fishing Decoy Carving – Four page free tutorial
Ice Fishing Decoy Gallery One
Ice Fishing Decoy Gallery Two
Sun Fish Carving – Includes free pattern

E-Project: Learn folk art ice fishing decoy carving with this in-depth step-by-step project taught by Lora S. Irish. This sixty page e-book includes an introduction to the history of ice fishing decoys, the six basic carving cuts needed to create these fun fish, and two complete projects. Complete your decoy with the painting steps and by creating a simple wire hanger. 60 pages of instructions, patterns, and ideas included are 20 small decoys patterns with fin variations, 4 long minnow decoy patterns, and 21 large full-sized decoy patterns accompanied by full-colored photos of the carved samples. Comes in Adobe Reader .pdf format!

Whittle Fish E-Project by Lora S Irish

Fish Related Digital Patterns: ArtDesignsStudio.com patterns by L S Irish

Fishing Lures

Fresh Water Fishing Patterns

Hook, Line, and Sinker

Just Goldfish

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Pyrography Junk Journal

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I have found over the years that I often have the desire to create something new far after I have run out of space to display the work.  I literally have dozens of banker boxes filled with finished projects, tucked away under my work table or in a closet, that are simply stored away.  Yet not having space for another pyrography, wood carving, or craft project does not stop me from wanting to create new ideas.

So I have come up with a small solution to my addiction to pyrography wood burning – a Pyrography Junk Journal!

Small wood pieces can be hot glued to my watercolor paper pages to add too my junk journal.

I cut the front and back of my junk journal from scrap, vegetable-dyed leather, then used a leather punch to create the holes for the clip rings.  Of course I worked a leather burning on my cover.  My journal measures 6 1/2″ x 8″.  Next I cut blank pages from heavy weight water color paper.  These pages measure 6″ x 7 1/2″.  Aligning the left side of the watercolor paper pages to the leather cover I marked the clip ring holes on the pages and cut them with my leather punch.

I wanted to test sample a new set of watercolor pencils that I will be using to add hue to my larger projects. This journal page let me check how well they covered and how transparent the were to allow the sepia shading to show without investing the time into a larger, in-depth work. A fun starting page for my junk journal.

I can work a pyrography wood burning pattern directly on the watercolor paper pages or I can use those pages to mount other media as small basswood squares, chip board shapes, paper mache squares, or leather scraps.

Fun, random, geometric shapes are great when you just want to spend an evening pyrography doodling.

Quick, easy, and so ready to fill with new free pyrography project patterns, experimental texture practice boards, and test sample for the next large pyrography burning!

 

Hope you have fun with this idea!!!!

~Lora

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