Affiliations: St. Charles Area Woodcarvers
Background: Hi, My name is Dick Weber, I presently live with my wife Jackie on Whidbey Island, in North Puget Sound, Washington. I am retired from 30 + years of Teaching Junior High School Social Studies, in the Shoreline District, north of Seattle.
I started woodcarving in 1970 after a trip to Alaska where I saw the worlds tallest Totem Pole being carved at Haines Alaska. I told my wife that I thought carving would be a great hobby and a good way to help me unwind after some of my long days of teaching. My first classes were in the NW Indian style of carving and that's about all I carved for the first 15 years. When I started teaching carving at the North Seattle Community College, Continuing Education program, I found that not all my students wanted to do Indian style carving.. This forced me to learn new and different styles. Over the years I have developed my skills in carving NW Indian style, caricatures, Santa's, animals and even a few birds.
After retiring and moving to Whidbey Is., I started teaching 3 days a week at local Senior Centers and have been doing so for the past 11 years. I have also taught at the Missoula carving seminar, the Tri-Cities and Quilcida spit and whittle rendezvous. I have also demonstrated at the local Arts and Crafts Fair and the local county Fair. I try, at least once a year, to take a workshop or seminar to learn new techniques and methods that I can pass on to carving students.
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