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Table of Contents: Club News Coming Events Meeting Pictures 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 again had members participating in a show sponsored by the St. Charles County Arts Council Along with other artists, two club members, John Bouchillon and Jim Leifield had works on display at the Lillian Yahn Gallery in Wing Haven for the St. Charles County Arts Council's Show, "Natural Circumstances." The show ran from August 1 through September 12. There was an opportunity to meet the artists on August 15 from 3-5 pm. Natural Circumstances Flyer Two club members wives, Lana Bouchillon and Dale Sapp, will have baskets and quilts they made on display at the Lillian Yahn Gallery Art Center in Winghaven for the St. Charles County Arts Council's Show, "Focus on Fiber." The show wil run from September 19 through November 1. The Gallery is open 1-4 on Saturdays and Sundays. In other news Bob Craven brought in a box of assorted sized butternut which he donated to the Club. The Club will decide whether to sell it to members or use it in classes. Al Westfall provided two woodcarving presentations to the Park Meadows Senior Center in St. Charles. The first presentation was to Building 1, which is the single room living area. The second presentation was to the Men's club in Building 3. This was a smaller group but very attentive and they enjoyed the presentation. Each presentation was about an 1 1/2 hours long. Al enjoyed doing the presentations and both groups of Seniors enjoyed his presentation. Wyatt Sample Coming Events: back to table of contents Members of the Club again will have the opportunity to participate with The Arts Council of St. Charles County in the Lions Club's Oktoberfest at Frontier Park on the St. Charles Riverfront. This year's event will be held on September 26 and 27. Carving will be from 10 am to 3 pm on the 26 and 1-3 pm on the 27th. Club members will carve pumpkins and may also carve wood. Mark your calendars and let Charlie Sapp know that you will be attending. Art Council Event: back to table of contents John Bouchillon, Jack Combs, Wyatt Sample, and Charlie Sapp demonstrated their skills at the St. Charles County Art Council's Celebration Americana at the Art Gallery in Winghaven on July 18 from 1 to 4pm. They also shared their skills by teaching soap carving to interested attendees at the show. Here are some of the soap carvers hard at work. Charlie Sapp is working on his soap carving skills. Some of John Bouchillon's works shown at the gallery. Charlie Sapp's carvings on the left and Wyatt Sample's carvings on the right displayed at the Art Gallery. Two of Jack Comb's beautiful birds on display. A visitor gets some information from Rich Weitzman and John Bouchillon. The following is a sample of other art on display during the Celebration Americana event. Meeting Pictures: back to table of contents Tom Mortellaro and Al Westfall are engaged in their carving. Bob Berg, Bob Craven and Corky Breece doing more talking than carving. Dee and Don Klee made an appearance to show their work from Doane. Mary McGinley discusses her carving with Mike McGinley and Martha Byron. Mike McGinley gets some advice from Wilbert Brewton. Corky Breece is carving away. Corky brought in a few more of his characture roughouts for club members to buy at a discount. Ray Plodzien has a new carving roughed out. John Bouchillon inspecting Moe Schmidt's carving. Wilbert Brewton is showing Martha Byron a roughout he made to instruct her with. Bill Kuhn, Martha Byron, and Bob Craven each were working hard on thier carvings Show and Tell: back to table of contents The first two pictures are Bob Bergs' completed Gerald Sears cowboy bust and a moosehead he did from an old roughout. An Eagle head for a cane done by Charlie Sapp at Doane and a Turtle carved by Paul Medlin Dee Kley's Eagle done at Doane in a Pat Moore seminar and Corky Breece's Christmas horse from an in-house seminar taught by Bill Kuhn. Tom Mortellaro's hound dog and Tom's Christmas horse done at the in-house seminar taught by Bill Kuhn. Pat Bauman's carving he calls Mozey Trail. It is a troll from Harley Refsal pattern in Woodcarving Magazine and a group caving of a baseball scene done by John Bouchillon at the Doane Seminar in a Dave Stetson class. More carvings from Bob Berg. The mule and buzzard is from a Harold Enlow roughout and a Santa he created. 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 a Bob Bierman Santa seminar in January and a painting seminar in February. Corky has scheduled a woodburning seminar on October 17-18 with Jen Kreyling. The class is currently full. If you have any suggestions for future 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.   ***** St. Charles Area Wood Carvers Participate in the 2009 Doane Experience (Contributed by Charles Sapp) The Doane Experience is an annual, weeklong workshop sponsored by the Mid America Woodcarvers Association of Omaha, Nebraska. The workshop is conducted on the campus of Doane College in Crete, Nebraska; a small community in South central Nebraska. It is approximately 75 miles west of Omaha and 25 miles west of Lincoln. The workshop is conducted on a college campus with classes held in the classroom buildings and students being housed in the dormitories. Meals are served in the college cafeteria. The curriculum of the workshop includes over 30 classes in a variety of carving subjects and skill levels as well as wood burning, painting, basket making, sculpting, loop weaving, and one a day classes. Nationally know instructors volunteer their time for the week to promote the various forms of art. This year the workshop had over 300 students. Eleven members of the St. Charles Area Wood Carvers participated in the Doane Experience: John & Lana Bouchillon, Larry & Jean Keller, Charles & Dale Sapp, Don & Dee Kley, Al & June Westfall, and George Schuey. John and Larry did caricature figures with Dave Stetson; Don, June, Dale, and Lana did basket weaving with Buck Reinecker; Jean did pine needle baskets with Mary Robbins; Dee carved a flying bald eagle with Pat Moore; Al carved a fish with Gary Klinger; George finished a female bust with Chris Howard; and Charles carved a mallard with Dick Carman. Pictures of their work are shown below: The first four picture are baskets made by Dee Kley, Dale Sapp, June Westfall, and Lana Bouchillon, respectively. Fish by Al Westfall, Charlie Sapp's duck and Charlie at work carving his duck. John Bouchillon's group. Works by Jean Keller. Larry Keller's group. George Schuey's female bust. ***** Wilbert Brewton and Rich Weitzman held the long awaited sharpening instruction at the second meeting in August on August 19th. 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