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Wood Spirit Walking Stick Carving

June 8th, 2023  My free Wood Spirit.pdf has been updated!  Please download Version 2.0 with the link below.

Cane Carving

Walking Sticks and canes are a favorite wood carving project for both beginning carvers to the most advanced woodworker. This free, online project by Lora Irish will take you through the basic techniques used in choosing your wood staffs and sticks, wood carving cane toppers, cane construction, and finishing used for walking sticks. Learn how to use wood burning in your cane carving to clean the joint lines of your carving and add fine details. Explore the different steps you can use to add bright, bold painted coloring.

 

 

Enjoy our latest freebie:
An Ancient Love Story – Wood Spirits V2
19 pages that include the classic mythology of this beloved icon, exploration of the different styles of Wood Spirits and Greenmen, and 14 ideas and patterns to use in your Wood Spirit carvings.

 

 

Let Your Cane Tell a Story

Cane toppers can be carved to show a favorite item, hobby, or occupation.  They can also tell a story.  This cane topper pattern shows the story of a large fish, being hugged by a turtle, swallowing a medium fish that is being hugged by a frog and is swallowing a small gator that is eating a mouse.  Thus its name “Food Chain”.

Click on the image above for a full-sized, printable pattern.

 

Free Online Tutorials

Wood Carving Canes, Walking Sticks, Wizard Wands

Wood Carving Walking Sticks, Introduction

Wood Carving Walking Sticks – Adding Extras

Wood Carving Walking Sticks – Common Tree Specieshow to carve canes

Wood Carving Walking Sticks – Harvesting

Wood Carving Walking Sticks, Gluing Your Joint

Wood Carving Walking Sticks, How to Clamp Your Cane Handle

Wood Carving Walking Sticks, Working with Bamboo

Harvesting Saplings for Cane Carving

Free Mountain Man Cane Carving Pattern

Wood Carving Walking Sticks, How to Join Your Cane Handle

Wood Spirit Cane and Walking Stick Carving

Twistie Stick Snake Cane Carving, Day 4

Twistie Stick Snake Cane Carving, Day 3

Twistie Stick Snake Cane Carving, Day 2

Twistie Stick Snake Carving Free Project

Walking Stick and Cane Handle Joinery

Wood Carving Walking Sticks

Canes and Walking Sticks

Carving the Wood Spirit

Carving the Wood Spirit Face

Cane and walking stick wood carving

 

Canes, Walking Sticks & Wizard Wands By Lora S. Irish

Our copyright allows you to sell your finished items worked with any
pattern from ArtDesignsStudio.com, Lora’s pattern website.  You can buy the complete pattern pack, carve or burn your heart out, and sell them all at your local craft fair.

48 patterns, with 3 to 5 sided views for each designs, for easy tracing and easy carving. 40 carved, and colored finished samples to guide you in your cane carving project. Patterns include Wood Spirits, Wizards, Dragons, Kings, Mushroom Spirits, Fish, Mark Twain, The Judge, Christmas Caroler, Viking Warrior, The Country Singer, and much, much more.

Our biggest pattern pack yet! Use any design for your cane carving, walking stick toppers, talking sticks, or Wizard Wands. Create smaller carvings for key chain lanyards, and flower pot companions. Another Art Designs Studio, A Lora Irish exclusive!

Only $10.95

Patterns By Download! — Fast! – Easy! – Convenient!
Download Today — And Be Carving Tonight!

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Coloring Your Carvings and Wood Burnings

Painting Wood, Water Colors, Colored Pencils, Marking Pens

 

Coloring Your Project

Painting with Eye Shadow for Wood Carving and Pyrographyfree pyrography clock pattern
Coloring Your Project
Color Chart for LSIrish.com
Basics to Painting
Adding Skin Colors with Watercolors
Basics to Painting
Acrylics over a Primer for Wood Carving
China Painting with Acrylics for Wood Carving
Dry Brushed Acrylics over Oil Stain for Wood Carvings
Marbling and Splatter Painting
Simple Dry Brushing for Wood Carving and Pyrography
Vintage Painting
Wood Carving and Burning Painting Supplies
Paint Kit Supplies for Painting Your Wood Carving
Steps to Success, Painting Your Wood Carving
Burnishing Your Wood Carving
Simple Blending with Acrylic Craft Paints
General Techniques Used in Wood Carving Paintingfinishing and paintinf techniques for wood
Basics to Painting for Pyrography and Wood Carving
Painting Eyes
Watercolors and Wood Burning
The Color Wheel, Who Is R. G. Biv?
Dry Brushing, Wood Painting Techniques by Lora Irish
Colored Pencil Let’s Talk Color
Marking Pen Quilts
Adult Coloring – Colored Pencil Application
Adult Coloring – Working with Colored Pencils
Adult Coloring Portraits
Colored Pencil Let’s Talk Color
Colored Pencil Pyrography
Color, Shadow, and Light in Pyrography
Coloring your Pyrography using Colored Pencils
Painting a Color Wheel for Pyrography, Gourd Art, Wood Carving
Working in Layers, Colored Pencils
Color Chart for LSIrish.com
Painted Blue Jeans 2, Free Craft Patterns
Painted Blue Jeans, Free Patterns
Sepia Toned Crayons

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New E-Project, Basic Berry Basket Weaving

Basic Berry Basket Weaving E-Project

$4.95

Basket weaving is one of mankind’s earliest crafts and one that continue into today to provide a rewarding, fun, and useful item.  Learn the basic steps to woven basketry with this 40 page pdf file by Lora S. Irish.  All steps are included with detailed photos.  Try this one project to open a whole new hobby!

Basket weaving is one of mankind’s earliest crafts and one that continue into today to provide a rewarding, fun, and useful item.  Learn the basic steps to woven basketry with this 40 page pdf file by Lora S. Irish.  All steps are included with detailed photos.  Try this one project to open a whole new hobby!

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Fish Decoy Carving

 

Posts:

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 patterns by L S Irish

Fishing Lures

Fresh Water Fishing Patterns

Hook, Line, and Sinker

Just Goldfish

 

 

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Chip Carving Wooden Spoons – Free Pattern

wood carving wooden spoonsClassic straight-handled, hardwood wooden spoons are a fantastic theme for the wood carver.   But there is so much more than you can do with that handle as chip  carving, oven rack hooks, and relief carving.

 

Click on the images for a full-sized free spoon carving pattern.

Chip Carving Seminar by Lora Irish
Chip Carving Seminar
Chip Carving Supplies
Chip Carving Graphed Patterns
Chip Carving Hand Positions and Grips
Chip Carving – Triangles and Square Chips
Chip Carving – Straight-Wall Chips
Chip Caved Game and Chess Board
Chip Carving Sampler Pattern Layout
Chip Carving Common Mistakes
Chip Carved Shortbread Cookies

 

 

Wood Carving
Four Methods to Cutting a Wooden Spoon Blank
Spoon, Fork, and Ladle Styles for Wood Carving
The Art of Spoon Carving by Lora S. Irish
Wood Carving a Basic Wooden Spoon
Wood Carving Wooden Spoons
Wooden Spoon Burning Patterns
Beginner’s Wood Carving, Spoon Carving
Wood Carving a Basic Wooden Spoon
Styles of Wood Carved Spoons

 

 

Oven Handle Spoon Carving PatternThis oven rack spoon handle is one of the many spoon patterns in Lora S. Irish’s book, Art of Spoon Carving, available at Amazon.com.

For your next new wood carving reading about chip carving, please see Lora Irish’s book, Chip Carving Workshop on Amazon.com.

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