Wood Carving Links
Although their are many more wood carving and
pyrography links to be found on the internet, I have found these to be very useful
starting points for finding other carvers and pyrography related sites. Otherwise just
nicely put together web sites that I frequently enjoy looking at. Web sites are in no
particular order, just newer submitted ones near the top of each category. If there
is a link here that is broken, or has changed to something inappropriate, please let us know about it.
Pyrography Artists
Wood turning Artists
Wood carving Artists
Information sources (list servers)
Associates (or Misc.)
Pyrography
Artists
Lora S. Irish
has a web site with literally hundreds of her patterns available for sale, that covers the
spectrum of anything you might imagine burning onto wood.
Cheryl Dow has a
web site now. Take a look at several of her latest works in her photo galleries.
Cheryl uses, recommends, and also sells the Optima 1 pyrography tools, along with
her books, various woods, and patterns.
If your looking for functional African Art, check out Linda Blanchette's web site called
Ebon Arts. Ebon Arts is a small American company striving to faithfully and
beautifully bring the spirit of African design their customers. Linda's pyrographic
art is not only beautiful, it's also functional. With a wide selection of boxes,
bowls, and plates, in a multitude of original designs, your bound to find something that
you just have to have. Linda is demanding of herself, and of her tools, and was a
major influence in the design of our #9M pen tip.
Dumitru
Muridian's (aka Dino) work sets a new standard in the definition of
"pyrography". Dino specializes in photo realistic portraits of people and
guitars. His work is so realistic, you might think it is an actual photo, or some
sort of PhotoShop trickery at first glance. Rest assured, this guy is really that
good. Here is a local link to my
favorite one of his done on paper called "Christian".
Bruce Walker does beautiful relief carvings, or "carvatures"
if you will. Take a look at these cabinet doors, recycled doors, and even a live
tree trunk. As amazing as these relief carvings are, what really floored me is that
Bruce only has the use of his left hand.
Kathleen M. Garvey Menéndez is associated with several web sites,
starting with the E-Museum of Pyrographic Art and is a regular contributor to the carvers companion web site.
Wood
turning Artists
Harvey Meyer
will show you how to make beautiful "Basket Illusion" style platters or bowls
using the new Optima PH21A 1/8" bowl beading pen. Check out his youtube videos for
detailed instruction.
Mike Jackofsky
is a professional woodturner from southern California who specializes in making hollow
vessels. Over the years Mike has created hundreds of pieces that have been displayed in
galleries and museums around the world. His Hollow-Pro™ brand tools are specially
designed for woodturners interested in creating hollow vessels and open bowls. Mike is a
well known teacher and workshop facilitator and has produced a two- DVD instructional
video. If you look at his gallery, you will also notice that many of his bowls have
been stunningly pyrographed by his sister-in-law Georgianne Jackofsky.
Wood
carving Artists
Rob Fulton of Spring Grove, IL at nippersinkraptorstudio.com
will not only carve you a very realistic bird, he'll even throw in pictures of the entire
bird carving process from beginning to end on CD; at no extra charge. All of his
carvings are one of a kind, signed and dated by Rob. Commissioned work is excepted.
Looking for fish lures or decoys? Well take a look at Henry's Lure World.
Henry Chaffin hand crafts his lures and decoys, and then hand paints them.
If you live near Somonauk Illinois, and your looking for something to do
this September 17th through the 23rd, then you need to check out The Carving Shop web site of Joe
Dillert for the 2nd annual GPO (Great Pig Out). Last years shindig was mostly for
carvers, but there will be plenty of pyrographers attending this year as well.
Activities include various seminars and classes (Ol Don, Cheryl Dow, and many other
instructors), demonstrations (Carousel Horse Carving), as well as a people's choice award
prizes (bring your carvings/pyrographic art, and your tools ;-). Detailed
information about GPO 2001 can be seen at Bob Morris's web site, Woodenhorsestudio.com.
Proceeds from this years GPO benefit "The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Northern Illinois".
Creative
Woodworks & Crafts Magazine Online is geared toward intarsia and scroll saw
topics. It features free patterns, articles, current issue overview, back issues,
shop directory, submission guidelines, and much more for today's discriminating wood
artist. While this may not seem directly related to carving or pyrography per se,
many people that do scroll saw and/or intarsia use our tools to augment their work.
Jeff
Greef Woodworking site is an online magazine of woodworking project plans, techniques,
and resources for the home hobbyist woodworker.
Martyn
Bednarzcuk specializes in ornamental carving and gilding, as well as sculptural work.
He works closely with designers and architects creating original interiors and
exteriors, private, public and corporate art to match the clients artistic preference.
Tom Pierce just got his site up, and we'll be getting more up to date
in the coming weeks. Allot of Tom's carvings to be seen here, as well as other interesting
links and stuff.
Terry from Bartlesville, OK has got a site with some interesting links
(check out the Lizard Lady link ;-), and some photos of his hand carved carvings.
Here an interesting site done by multi-talented artist Michael Dunn. He not only does
outstanding wood carvings, he is also very accomplished in other areas including bronze
sculpture, and computer graphics among many other things.
A web site by Mike Dunk. A nicely
crafted page with many pictures of his carvings, including many helpful tips to fellow
carvers. Mike purchased an Optima 1 pyrographic burner a few months back, and is putting
it to good use.
A home page by Bruce S. Haug Still under
construction, has some good links, and pictures of his carvings.
Information
sources (listservers)
Click that button, to join a list server just for
pyrographers. There are three different ways to subscribe. Either you can
download individual emails (may include list members uploaded photos), download the digest
version (no photos, only text), or just read and enjoy it online with your browser.
A great pyrography resource, give it a try today.
Bill Judt's
Woodcarver mailing list server. The best source for
woodcarving information, news, and camaraderie. Of course, you'll also want to check out
his BI-monthly woodcarving electronic magazine (Ezine for short), not to mention his personal
home page.
Associates
A great place to start learning the basic techniques and
skills of pyrography, The Woodburner
is dedicated to encouraging and teaching people about woodburning. Included on the site is
a nine step "start learning" guide, as well as a message board where you can ask
questions or get extra help. You can also subscribe to a newsletter, or just look in the
newsletter archives.
The Northwest Wood Carvers Association
has a page up now, and has information the carving shows that they host in their area soon
(Federal Way, WA). Their featured artist is Judy E, Caldwell, a consistent winner of
several show awards.
Chip
Chats or NWCA web site. If you enjoy carving of any kind, get a subscription to
their affordably priced full color magazine. It includes show reviews, carving
patterns and projects, editorials, and several articles by noted artists.
If you know of or have a web page dedicated to decorative wood carving,
please email me its URL. Please include a
description of your web site to be used to describe it on this page.
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