High Density Carving Foam

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

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GatorWorld Carving Foam

Ya’ kno’ how sometimes you can feel in total control of your project and direction in which that project is headed.  Then sometimes it feels like the project is totally in control and you are only along for the ride.

The carving foam shanty house was meant to be rustic, dark, and part of a gaming terrain design.  But somehow … I don’t know when or where … it suddenly took a left hand turn to end up as GatorWorld.

The shanty is constructed with 3/8″ foam board, 1″ thick cuts from insulation carving foam, and cereal box cardboard for the windows and doors.  Carving foam balloons are suspended on 18-gauge copper wire.  The palm tree with paper leaves is also carving foam; wood beads become coconuts, and a string of fairy lights is wrapped around the trunk.

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Cosplay Fantasy Dagger – Sculpture foam

Cosplay and diorama terrain game building are all the rage today.  This fantasy knife, made from sculpture foam, rests on a white taill deer antler, which is also foam created.  The only weight to this plaque lies in the round basswood slab.  The dagger rests in the antler spike and can easily be removed for play and rest back into the antlers after the fun is done.

The map on the basswood slab is a map of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and worked with artist quality colored pencils.

Supplies needed for this project

12″ x 6″ x 2″ sculpture foam

10″ x 13″ x 3/4″ basswood end slab

flat aluminum jewelry wire

assorted lampwork jewelry beads

assorted metal jewelry beads

super glue

colored pencil set

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Nordic Style Carving – Sculpture Foam

Nordic Style Carving is worked with smooth edges, simple shapes, and little or no detailing.  When worked in wood, as sugar pine or black walnut, the wood grain becomes the dominate feature of the carving.

With high density sculpture foam, a Nordic styled bird carving becomes the base for adding small areas of texture or as the background for a full acrylic scene painting.

Supplies

6″ x 5″ x 1″ block of sculpture foam
basic set of carving knives
220- and 320-grit sandpaper
graphite paper for tracing
6mm black glass beads for the eyes
acrylic craft paints

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