Wood Magazine 94 by Larry Clayton

Author:Larry Clayton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Wood, Home and hobby woodworker
Publisher: Meredith Corporation
Published: 1997-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Paint a pretty bird

Spray on a coat or two of Deft lacquer to seal the carving for painting. This provides a smooth, non-absorbent surface for painting. Power-brush the carving once more after the lacquer dries.

Randy paints his carvings with artists' oil paints. You could use acrylics, if you prefer. Standard colors needed for the cardinal are:

•Cadmium red medium

• Cadmium red dark (or deep) •Cadmium yellow

• Burnt umber

• Ivory black or Mars black

• Prussian blue •Payne's gray

Thin the colors for brushing, and apply thin coats. Thin coats allow you to build color without covering up the carved details.

Paint the sides and breast with cadmium red medium. Continue that color onto the head, then blend toward cadmium red dark at the top of the crest. For the back, wing feathers, and tail, add burnt umber and Payne's gray to the cadmium red medium.

Add a touch of Prussian blue to either ivory black or Mars black for the throat. On the bill, shade from cadmium yellow near the line that separates the mandible and maxilla to cadmium red medium. (If you're using acrylics, Randy suggests stippling the yellow on first—putting it on in a dot

pattern with the tip of the brush— then painting the red.)

Build a display base

All that remains is to place your carving on a suitable base. To make a simple base, cut an oval or rectangle from -%"-thick hardwood. You could rout a chamfer or bead along the top edge, too. Drill a W hole Vi" deep in the center, and attach the carving to the base with a W dowel pin W long.

For his carving, Randy constructed a turned base with simulated snow to highlight the winter cardinal. Here's how to make one:

Bandsaw a 7^"-dia. circle from lV6"-thick stock. Center your lathe's faceplate on the back of the circle. Turn the disk to the profile shown.

Fill the recess with a nonshrink-ing filler. After the filler cures, drill a Vi" hole W deep in the base's center. Stick a length of scrap dowel rod into the hole.

Coat the filled area with acrylic textural medium (we applied DecoArt Snow-Tex, available at craft supply stores) or thick, white enamel. While the surface is tacky, dowel the carving to the base, and sprinkle crystal clear glitter all over the area around the bird. (We bought our glitter at a craft supply store, too.) Let the surface dry, then shake off the excess glitter.^

Buying Guide

Roughout. Machine-carved roughout from original carving, $15.95 ppd. in U.S. for one, $27.90 for two. Catalog of over 400 roughouts included with order, or available separately for $3.95 (refunded with first order). Rossiter's Roughouts, 1447 S. Santa Fe, Wichita, KS 67211, or call 800/825-2657 (800/8BLANKS) to order.

Project Design: ©Randy Hansen Photographs: Hopkins Associates;

Hetherington Photography Illustrations: Roxanne LeMoine; Lorna Johnson

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