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.
John Bouchillon, Jim Liefield, Wyatt Sample, and Charlie Sapp participated in a 6 week Art Show by the St. Charles County Arts Center. The Art Gallery held the show displaying works of art including paintings, sculpture, and photography. Each club displayer provided several carvings for the show.
Upcoming events: The St. Charles County Art Council would also like to have club members show their skills on the weekend during the Celebration Americana show this summer (late June thru July). More details to follow. And keep your calendar open for pumpkin carving at the Oktoberfest in late Sept on the riverfront.
The Club also participated in the City of O'Fallon's Founders Day Celebration on May 2, 2009, teaching soap carving to children of all ages from 10am to 4pm at Fort Zumwalt Park. Marsha K. Seymour, the Manager for Tourism & Festivals for the City of O'Fallon said that the kids soap carving was a huge hit. She said that they certainly appreciated the St. Charles County Wood Carvers hosting the activity and hope we can do it again next year.
Special thanks to the club members that helped with the soap carving demonstration/training session at the O’Fallon Founder’s Day event last weekend. Martha Byron, Wilbert Brewton, Bob Berg, Al Westfall, and Rich Weitzman, and Charlie Sapp had a total of 93 kids (of all ages) complete soap carvings.
It was a great day and there was a constant stream of carvers from the opening at 10am until we used the last bar of soap at 4pm and called it a day. Thanks also to Dale Sapp for making two extra runs to the store to purchase more soap during the day.
You can spot Wyatt Sample in a couple of the pictures, but he was under the weather and just came to take pictures. He found his camera was missing the memory card so he was unable to take pictures but his daughter was able to soap carve. Luckily Rich Weitzman did bring a camera and provided the following pictures for the newsletter.
Wyatt Sample
Here are a few pictures of club members at the last meeting working on projects and discussing carving ideas and stories.
Show and Tell:
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Two views of a plane carved by Al Westfall for a friend.
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Two views of a German in Lederhosen that may be a future club project by Wyatt Sample and two views of his Santa done in the Bob Bierman class.
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Here is a buffalo carved by new member Tom Mortellaro. He was coached in this project by Bill Kuhn.
The woodspirit was carved by Charles Adams.
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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.
Don't miss the Club Meeting on Wednesday May 20. Wilbert Brewton and Rich Weitzman will be conducting a class in sharpening.
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
