Showing posts with label bottle stoppers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bottle stoppers. Show all posts

Sunday, 23 December 2012

Well known faces?


These are my first attempts at caricaturing some well known faces in the UK.

Wood: Lime (Tilia x europea)
Height: 7.5 - 9 cms
Finish: Linseed oil, acrylic/oil paint and beeswax

I was reasonably pleased with these 3 pieces each bearing some resemblance to the face I had in mind!

Friday, 21 December 2012

First caricatures

My first caricatures were made using the publication entitled "Carving Caricature Heads & Faces" written by W. Pete LeClair, who is a member of the prestigious Caricature Carvers of America http://www.cca-carvers.org/

The figures are carved in Lime (Tilia x europaea), are between 6 -9 cms high and mounted on cork bottle stoppers.
The wood is left with a tooled finish, coated with linseed oil, then painted with acrylic paint for the eyes and teeth, and diluted oil paint for the remainder. When dry the figures were polished with beeswax polish then buffed with a brush once dry.