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Extreme Foam Pumpkin Carving

Snow Gnome Pyrography
Have a little free pyrography fun with this step-by-step PDF.

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Adult Coloring E-Project
Available at our pattern website – ArtDesignsStudio.com

If you enjoy Adult Coloring, Wood Carving, or Pyrography this E-Book, by Lora S. Irish, will teach you the techniques to create vibrant skin tones in your colored pencil works.  As an added bonus the patterns inside of the Adult Coloring Portrait E-Book are shown in a medium gray coloring, not as black outlined designs, so that your coloring will cover the pattern outlines.

  • Learn how to create new color tones through the use of a color wheel
  • Create your own skin shading practice grid using your colored pencil pack
  • Discover how to determine your light source and how it effects the highlights and shadows on the face
  • Practice using black cherry, indigo blue, deep forest green, and burnt umber as your shading base
  • Explore the different art papers that you can use with your printer for your portraits

146 pages of instructions, patterns, and ideas including 6 in-depth step-by-step portrait projects and 62 patterns for wood spirits, greenmen, shamans, wizards, vampires, dragons, and assorted designs.

 

Halloween Pumpkin E-Project
Available on our pattern website – ArtDesignsStudio.com

$9.95

Have you tried carving rigid XPS foam yet?  It is a construction product used for home insulation that is created with densely packed particles of polystyrene and it carves like a dream.  Light weight, water proof, and can be colored with acrylic craft paints.  This pdf by Lora S Irish will take you through all the steps needed to carve your own Extreme Pumpkin face.

 

In the northern hemisphere, this is the perfect time of year to harvest your walking sticks and hiking canes.   As the saplings along your fence lines, road side, or field edges begin to lost their leaves their trunk profile becomes visible.

Learn more about How to Harvest Your Walking Sticks

 

 

 

 

Autumn is a great time to start a new wood carving project.

Our free, online, step-by-step Canada Goose Relief Carving Project includes all the instructions a new carver needs to complete this realistic, painted waterfowl plaque.

 

 

Did you know that you can work your pyrography on many more surfaces than just wood.  Watercolor paper, vegetable-dyed leather, cotton canvas, and paper mache make great backgrounds for your next work.

Learn more about Pyrography on Paper
Pyrography on Leather
Wood Burned Paper Mache Mouse Box

wood carving wooden spoonsAre you ready to  start spoon carving?  This traditional whittling projects is quick, fun, and so easily adapted to new designs.

Learn more about Spoon Carving
Wood Carving
Cutting a Wooden Spoon Blank
Spoon 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

free painted blue jean patternsGet out your permanent marking and gel pens to have a fun evening of decorating our old blue jeans.  After the design is completed, iron your pants on a hot temperature to set your colors.

Learn more about Blue Jean Painting

 

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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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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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Wood carving, Pyrography, Crafts

 

Over 600 webpages of free fun, ideas, techniques, and projects.

Today’s focus project: Chip Carving Seminar

Chip carving has become for the woodworker an art form complete in itself. This technique uses triangular shaped cuts that create intricate and intriguing designs dancing across the surface of the wood. Patterns for chip carving are defined by a few basic elements, as the triangle or free form line, yet by varying the size and position of these elements new patterns are created.

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

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