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Carving show again at Klehm with a good show. Rich Andersen made name badges with club logo for all members. December meeting is Christmas party. Refreshment and tool swap and etc. This was a sad year we had three of are carver passed away. Dave Hoffman passed away on January 22, 2006. Dave was an avid carver of animals and ducks from walnut. Ron Flam passed away April 29, 2006. Ron passion was carving. Bark and bust just to name a few. Sandy (Gene) Schmitt passed away October 30, 2006. Sandy was an avid carver of santa. Sandy had a large collection that his wife (Phyllis) still display during the holiday. Club Officers President Elaine Terrell Committees Program Committee (open)
December Party Can you believe that it is time again for the holidays-----Christmas Party & Swap night? Well it is! The December 19th business meeting is really a time for celebration, old stories, and exchange personal tools etc. For the exchange or sale bring anything having to do with carving; tools, finishing materials, magazines, handbooks, sandpaper ….you get the idea. And for the food, bring a cookie dish or dip and crackers. The carving club will furnish pizza and soda pop. And for extra fun that will be a show & tell. Bring a finished carving that has something to do with Christmas such as a Santa, tree-ornament, etc. Family, friends all welcomed. November SpeakerBob Matthews will present a painting session of a feather. During the class each person will paint a single side pocket feather from a female mallard. It is an application that requires the participant to mix and layer several colors to get the required effect. Bob says that it is not hard, just requires patience. If you have them, please bring your paints and brushes. However Bob will have brushes, paints, paper towels, paper plates, plastic cups, and water. For those who will bring there own supplies the following list applies: Acrylic paint: Titanium white Brushes: #2 round Unbleached titanium #3 round Raw Sienna #10 filbert Raw umber Burnt umber Yellow ocher Bob is retired and lives with his wife, Karen, in Belvidere, and has two children and five grandchildren. He is retired from United Airlines after 40 years of service. If you can not find Bob at home he and Karen are probably traveling the country in their motor home. Wildlife and woodworking has been Bob's passion of interest. It was in 1979 that he began to carve wildfowl and has never stopped since then. Through many seminars and special training from a master carver Dick LeMaster, he has mastered the art of carving and painting birds. Today, after 27 years Bob says that he is still learning and striving to improve his work. He does not attempt to improve on Mother Natures' accomplishments, but strives to represent any species in attitude, shape, and color. He jokes about the past regarding his first carved bird from a kit that was crude, and tells us that his wife suggested that he change from a paint roller to a brush if he wants to amount to anything. And has he ever made the long distance run!-------his bird carvings are in a class act of there own.
ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM Again this year Roger Benedict will guide a tour of Rockford Art Museum. This years exhibit is the RBC Dain Rauscher Collection, titled the "Human Touch." The collection ranges from serious to whimsical, from realistic to abstract, from paintings to three-dimensional works, from photographs to works on canvas, and from large scale to small. Everyone is encourage to attend and recognize that art is selected to engage rather than decorate, it encourage us to imagine, to test, to challenge, and to ask, "why?" This can be helpful with our passions of woodcarving. The art tour is open to families and friends of the members, and is scheduled for Saturday, November 4th at 10:45 am with lunch at the Olympic Tavern following the tour. The carving club will cover the $5 museum cost. The museum tour of November 4th has been postponed because of the funeral service of the same date for Sandy Schmitt, who passed away. Mark your calendars for the new tour date of November 18th at 10:30 am.
October Speaker Lew Riley will present a drawing session titled, "Draw What You See." Drawing materials and still life subjects will be provided along with Lew's fondness for free hand sketching. Lew Riley is retired from 36 years as an airport air-traffic controller. His work was evenly split among various airports in Indiana and the last 18 years at the Rockford airport. He says, "I always enjoyed art and decided to take up art to make mistakes, because as an air-traffic controller I can not make a mistake." Lew's artwork is self-taught from many classes (sounds similar to the life of a carver.) During the past several years, and currently, he teaches portrait art at the Rockford Art Museum through Rock Valley College. This will be a good opportunity to try your hand at sketching freestanding forms based on light and shapes. September Speaker Roger Benedict will lead the meeting though a carving session of a leaf in relief forms. Bring your gouges and chisels (knives will be not be used), carving glove, and bench backstop in you have one. Carving wood will be supplied. Roger's work is primarily with relief carvings because he enjoys framed art and therefore finds carved reliefs the closest to a framed sketch or painting. Also from his Euorpean travels he became interested from observing the many wall stone and bronzed reliefs in churches and buildings that were created in the middle ages. His work does not generally follow the book tradition for relief carving, but hopefully you will find some interesting ways to achieve a simple relief carving that may lead to future new work for you.ANNUAL PICNIC The shelter house is reserved at Sinissippi Park for our annual picnic. The time and date is 4:00 pm till dark on Tuesday, September 19th. Spouses and friends are encouraged/ welcomed. Bring a dish to pass and your favorite meat to grill. Soda pop will be furnished. Begin eating at 5:30 pm.
August Show Show Time is upon us. If you have just returned from space and have not heard the latest, our annual woodcarving show is "set to go" Saturday August 19th. Registration report by Don Stansfield says that we should be booked solid by the 19th. Good news is that there are three vendors signed up. And further good news is that we will be not go hungry with Damon's Restaurant camped at the back door. Some loose ends, though, we still need volunteers----contact Bob Hallstrom 997-3930, or Elaine Terrell 765-2886 to lend a hand. The tables will be in place by Friday morning, and you may set up your table Friday beginning around noon. Do not forget to mail those announcement post cards to your friends and family. Also please mark your calendars for the next business meeting on Tuesday night August 15th, because there will be some important items to discuss before the show day. July Speaker
June Speaker
May Speaker Bob Matthews has developed an excellent skill with carving birds and denoting precise feather arrangements. For his presentation he will lead us through a project in carving a single feather. Bob will supply the wood, and you supply your tools (make sure to bring gouges and a carving glove) and wit. Bob and his wife are from the southern burbs of Chicago. He began carving ducks in 1979 and soon discovered they all looked alike, and switched to songbirds. Then today he concentrates on birds of prey. He retired in 1998 from United Airlines in the cargo distribution center. Currently he and his wife spend most of their time traveling with their motor home, either on short summer trips or wintering in the SE part of the USA. April SpeakerGuy Fiorenza will speak about his collection of miniature carved circus wagons and show a video of a working miniature circus. Guy is a Rockford native. As a young boy in the 1940's he was interested in the operation of a circus as they came to town to set-up near his Grandparents house. He watched and sometimes helped with the set-up from unloading the trains to raising the tents, and even to handing out handbills. Through his Dad in 1945 he met a Rockford man, who was carving exact scaled miniature circus wagons. This man was Joe Taggart, son of a very wealthy National Avenue family, who spent all his young and adult life carving miniature circus wagons. Eventually Joe Taggart constructed a scaled miniature circus (weighs 2000-pounds.) Guy Fiorenza was very lucky to be in the right place at the right time to obtain this collection from Joe Tagart's widow in 1960. For his presentation on the April 18th business meeting Guy will show a few of the miniature wagons, which are operational with actual working brakes, folding boards, and chutes. He will show a video of the miniature circus that has electric lights and motors operating many of the things seen under a three-ring circus tent. This will be treat for us! Bring spouses, friends, anyone who may be interested in a circus.
March Speaker John Susin will speak about his Santas depicted in the Chip Chats Magazine, November-December 2005 edition. This article presented John's background as a carver and showed his excellent carved Santas. There are additional photos on the front and back covers of the magazine. John resides in Lombard, IL and has been retired since 1991. He began to carve in 1994 from an interest in a local carving group. He has taken only two carving classes, yet has developed his skills through self taught ideas to achieve his desired results. Over the years he has developed a personal technique of combining features from caricature and realistic forms. Carving came easy as he enjoys working with wood along with the pleasant smell of wood and its lightweight. John has shown his carvings and competed in several of our past Carving Shows at Kenrock.February Speaker
Ozzie Webb is a Rockford wood carver who uses a dremel exclusively for
his work. During a "home show" at Bob's Hardware, Ozzie
was demonstrating his technique and showing his work. He has been retired for
many years and spent significant time, since 1982, volunteering for
International Executives Service. He has travels to 13 different countries by
assisting local companies in manufacturing processes and tooling. Countries
located in Africa, Central and South America, and Eastern Europe have benefited
from his expertise. Ozzie is from Rockford…..born
and raised. His dremel carving work dates back to 1962, where he became
interested beyond his drawing hobby. He will speak on the dremel subject of
carving and demonstrate several of his tools and techniques. January Speaker Our guest speaker was Mickey Bowman who presented "stone sculpturing" by providing a background of the art and a sculpturing demonstration. We discovered that Alabaster stone and walnut wood have similar hardness. Alabaster having beautiful color is one of the easier stones to carve. On the opposite end of "ease of carving" is Mahogany Granite being one of the hardest to sculpture; needing diamond-cutting tools. He finds Indiana limestone as one of his favorite stones. Also of interest is finding a good piece of Northern Illinois limestone located along a creek bottom or at a river's edge. His scope of tools included files, grinders, chisels and mallets.
Pictures of the Show in 2006 Press on picture to make it larger
These are pictures of the show in Chip Chats Magazine January-February 2007
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