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Extreme Foam Pumpkin Carving

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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

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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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Wood Spirit Walking Stick Carving

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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!

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Download Today — And Be Carving Tonight!

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Chip Carving Wooden Spoons – Free Pattern

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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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Nordic Style Carving – Sculpture Foam

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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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