Wood Carving Illustrated - Issue #12 - Fall 2000

British Invasion
Ian Norbury, one of Europe's premier carvers, comes to the U.S. to offer instruction.

Carving for Safety's Sake
Read ten tips to keep you safe and healthy

The Pussycat
Art Shoemaker's feline is a purr-fect carving for the beginner

Pattern Profile: Wine Steward
Here's a project that puts a cork in your favorite bottle

Color Wheel Basics
Mixing colors is as easy as saying red, yellow and blue

Fine Art of Carousel Restoration and Painting
Pam Hessey shares her magic for bringingwooden figures back to life

Introduction to Free-Form Chip Carving
Barry McKenzie describes what he calls calligraphy with a knife

Landscapes in Relief
Lora Irish offers tips from her new book

Sign Up for Carving a Little Guy
Create custom announcements with Larry Spinak's diminutive figure

Pattern Profile: Troll Girl
Don't discount a girl with pointed ears and a tail

Clay and Carving
Before carving a figure, make a realistic model with the help of simple household items

Flexcut Tools Put to the Test
Tool reviewer John Mgnone finds praise for a unique design

Tips: Dust Collector
Control dust with an inexpensive machine you can make on your own

Wood Review: Pine
From match sticks to sculpture, pine has played a prominent role in American industry and art

Quarter Century Club
A Long Island, New York carving club celebrates a silver anniversary

Regular Columns
Editor's Corner
Letters to the Editor
On the Road
Events Calendar
Advertisers' Index
Classifieds

A self-taught artist and avid woodcarver, Jack Kochan has been carving nearly twenty years. Though primarily a wildfowl carver, he is adept at many styles of carving from relief, to caricature, to realistic and covers a broad range of subject matter. Born and raised in the rolling hills of Berks County, Pennsylvania, he grew up with a deep appreciation of wildlife and nature. Much of his work reflects the adversity, tranquillity, and sometimes the comedy of nature itself. A thorough understanding of anatomical structure helps create his many lifelike pieces. He also illustrates for Woodcarving Illustrated Magazine and has been a contributor to several articles. Jack resides in Leesport, Pennsylvania with his wife, June.

Roger Schroeders success as a writer began when he gave up trying to write the great American novel. Instead, he turned to writing about his hobby: woodworking. Sharpening his skills and his photography and expanding his interests, he went on to author 16 books and nearly 200 magazine articles. Ranging in scope from woodcarving to house building, the books include such titles as How to Carve Wildfowl, Carving Signs, Making Toys, and Timber Frame Construction, which has over 77,000 copies in print. Founding editor of Wood Carving Illustrated, Roger is past president of the Long Island Woodcarvers Association and active in the Long Island Wood Workers club. He is a retired English teacher who specialized in teaching writing and research, Roger currently lectures on topics such as how to make wood into furniture, houses and sculpture. In the remaining time, he is an amateur cabinetmaker who enjoys constructing Victorian reproductions, and is an amateur carver who has won a number of blue ribbons for his natural wood sculptures.

Lora Irish is an artist who runs an internet carving studio with her husband at www.carvingpatterns.com. She is a frequent contributor to Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts and Wood Carving Illustrated and the author of Great Book of Dragon Patterns, Great Book of Fairy Patterns, Great Book of Tattoo Designs, Great Book of Woodburning, and Wood Spirits and Green Men. She lives in Mt. Airy, Maryland.