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Table of Contents: Club News Coming Events Show and Tell Recommended Resources Dues Reminder Seminars Meeting Location Member Web Page Update

Club News: The club meets twice a month - the first and third Wednesdays at 7pm!      The Club continues to get involved in events in the community. The Club has been invited to participate in a 6 week Art Show by the St. Charles County Arts Center. The Art Gallery is holding a show which will display works of art including paintings, sculpture, and photography. There will be an opening reception on March 21 from 6pm to 8pm. There will be 8-10 woodcarvings from our club in the display. Displayers are John Bouchillon, Jim Liefield, Wyatt Sample, and Charlie Sapp. The Club will also be a part of the City of O'Fallon's Founders Day Celebration on May 2, 2009. We will be teaching soap carving to children of all ages from 10am to 4pm at Fort Zumwalt Park. There will be a 50 cent charge to cover the cost of the soap. Wyatt Sample Here are a few pictures of club members at work on thier own projects during club meetings. John Bouchillon, Rich Wietzman, Pat Bauman and Charlie Adams are all hard at work. Bob Craven, Tom Mortellaro, and Al Westfall each have projects in process. Tom Mortellaro is working on a bison relief carving. Tom is one of our newest carvers and is being coached in this project by Bill Kuhn. Wilbert Brewton is demonstrating carving an ear to Martha Byron. Wilbert Brewton demonstrated sharpening to Martha Byron and Bill Kuhn. Show and Tell: back to table of contents Syl Bax and Moe Schimdt both showed birds they had carved. John Bouchillon's nametag, Santas, a cross and spools painted in Bob Bierman's class. Recommended Resources:back to table of contents The following two links are to sources of carving woods. Heineke comes to the Belleville woodcarving show each year and to other shows and provides excellent wood. Slim also comes to the Belleville show and has also attended our woodcarving shows. Heinecke Wood Slim's Woodshed Lynn Doughty is a western carver living in Oklahoma. He does a blog which provides tutorial on how he carves his characters with detailed instruction. There is no cost to the blog. It is a great resource,check it out at Out West Woodcarving. The following pictures are examples of some of the carvings that he gives specific instruction on. Gene Messar is a Flat Plane carver living on the Texas/Louisiana border. He has done a number of videos on youtube demonstrating the carving of santas, snowmen, Rufus and Sadie, hillbilly, wizard, hobo, halloween ghost, a scene with a dog treeing a raccoon in a tree and others. The following is a picture of some of his carvings. Each carving is demonstrated in a series of short videos. If you have high speed internet these videos are free and helpful. It is a great resource, check it out at Whittler0507 Dues:back to table of contents There are no dues at club meetings, but be sure to pay your annual dues.   Check with President Rich Weitzman if you are unsure if you are paid up to date.   Club dues are $15.00 per year and include the website and electronic newsletter.  Seminars:back to table of contents          Corky Breece, Seminar Chairman Corky planned several great seminars in 2008, and will have more in 2009. He has done a great job. Thanks Corky! If you have any suggestions for seminars, please get in touch with him.    For seminars - the doors open in the morning at 8:30am and in the evening at 5:00pm.  Typically classes during the day will be conducted from 9am to 5pm and in the evening from 5:00pm to 9pm.   Ask your instructor for exact times.   *** Bob Bierman provided a painting seminar on March 14. A number of carvers attended the seminar, many painting their Santa Clauses from his last carving seminar and others painted other carvings they had done. Bob provided painting instruction, first by demonstrating the painting of a small Santa ornament. Once Bob had demonstrated his painting method, everyone went to work on their own carvings. Bob went from person to person giving personal instruction. He provided the paint and boiled linseed oil for those who had not previously oiled their carvings. With his method you can paint immediately on the freshly oiled carving. Al Westfall works on his Santa. Ray Plodzien paints his Santa. Meeting Time and Location:back to table of contents Meetings are held at 7:00 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday of each month. The meetings include a brief business meeting followed by a carving session. The meeting location has changed. Meetings are now held at the Weldon Spring Site Remedial Action Project at 7295 Highway 94 South St. Charles, Missouri 63304. Visitors are always welcome! Weldon Spring Department of Energy site.  From highway 40/61 or I-70 exit highway 94 and continue south toward Defiance.  It is just past the Francis Howell High School.  When you see a Quonset hut on the right hand side it is the next driveway / facility.       Member Web Pages-Update: back to table of contents New members - be sure to get with Wyatt Sample and provide him with some pictures of your work and a background write up for the website.  All Members, please feel free to update the information for your page on the website any time. Just send an email to the webmaster, Wyatt Sample,(link at bottom of page) with any new information about yourself. Please provide some information about any new carving you want displayed and either send in a digital picture or bring in a picture of your carving to be scanned. You can look through the other member pages to see what type of information others have provided. Contact us for more information on the club or activities.  For questions regarding this Web Site, contact Webmaster: Wyatt Sample