Sheila Young's "Miniature Blue Heron" - Day 4

We are now into the burning stages. Sheila and Earl demonstrated their talents and were generous enough to share a few of their  tips and tricks.

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This Thurs (Oct 8th) is meeting night for NS Wildlife Carvers

  After the regular monthly meeting we will have the Annual General Meeting with election of executive officers for the new year.  We’re still looking for someone to offer to chair the Competition Committee and some committee members to help with the job.

Remember when doing your carvings this year, the theme carvings are  any loon (stylized, decorative, decoy, smoothie etc), Blue Shark, and Squirrel.

Sheila Young's "Miniature Blue Heron" - Day 3

Now we added the long thin feathers on the back and breast areas first then cut in the primary feathers. We narrowed the beak down to its final shape and added the mouth line. Added the crown feathers that run down the back of the head

Sheila Young Course "Miniature Blue Heron" - Day 2

Now that our blanks are all trimmed out. All contours smoothed down to the body & head thickness we are ready to start roughing our some shapes in preparation for their details. The eye locations are are plotted and drilled, The shapes are drawn around the eyes and around the beak top and bottom. The eye plane trimmed down to the plans thickness making sure the eyes are straight up and down and not angular. The wings edge line is drawn along the side all the way to the top of the tail section.

 

Sheila Young's "Miniature Blue Heron" - Day 1

With blanks in hand we started with smoothing the corners. Making sure contours are round and smooth. All thickness a trimmed down to the plans provided. Being sure to stay away from the tail and beak areas.

Sheila Young Course "Miniature Blue Heron"

We have started a new course last evening here at the NSWCAA. Sheila Young's 10 week course "Carving and painting a miniature Blue Heron". With Sheila's World Class Award Winning talents this course has become a highly anticipated one by many...... cant wait to dive in.