The Blackhawk Woodcarver
Mark your calendars for our Open
House event to be held Saturday 28 April 2018 at our Club room. We hope that
everyone will be there for at least part of the time. Tell your friends,
relatives, and all you meet. Everyone’s participation is desired.
In every organization I am involved,
I spend time thinking about the mission of the organization. I consider this
most important when considering how to lead and present the organization to
the public. Our upcoming event is being planned with rather short lead time;
but with the elimination of a show, and especially a judged show, the tasks
have been greatly reduced. Members will display carvings, demonstrate
carvings, and discuss the hobby, craft, and art of wood carving. We are the
Ambassadors of the Club and of the hobby in this area. Selling of carvings
and carving tools will be permitted. Tool sharpen service will be available.
We have been given a great opportunity and we will use it.
Gary Curl had to cancel his
presentation for 21 February meeting due to his illness. We plan to
reschedule Gary’s “Loving Spoons” presentation to 18 April 2018.
Tyrone Johnsen
March 7 open
carving
March 14 open carving
March 21 meeting & the Art of relief Carving by Roger Benedict
March 28 open carving
April 4 open
carving
April 11 open carving
April 18 meeting and Carving Spoons by Gary Curl
April 25 open carving
April 2
May 2 open carving
May 9 open carving
May 16 open carving and meeting
May 23 open carving
May 30 open carving
June 6 open carving
June 12 club picnic (see article below)
June 13 open carving
June 20 open carving and meeting
June 27 open carving
The
Values of Relief Carving
“For the March business meeting on
the Values of Relief Carving by Roger Benedict. A visual journey about
the history and related issues to create a relief carving will be presented.
This presentation will not cover any demonstrations, but will focus on many
points of information to encourage the appreciation of the art of relief
carving.”
Roger Benedict
2018
Blackhawk Woodcarvers Annual Picnic
The 2018 Blackhawk Woodcarvers
Annual Picnic will be held on Tuesday, 12 June, at Bauman Park in Cherry
Valley, Il. from 3:00pm until sunset. Members attending should provide their
own meal and may bring a dish to pass. The club will provide water and soft
drinks. If members plan on grilling they may use the grills provided at the
park, bring your own charcoal and starter. If you have any questions,
contact Tony DeVito or Gary Lundquist.
Gary Lundquist
March
Birthdays (that we Know of)
26 Ray Pederson
29
Jesse Daughtry
Center
for Learning in Retirement Classes
Your First Woodcarving
Join us for your first experience of woodcarving and take home your
completed rosette carving. A $5 materials and tools fee payable to the
instructor covers all needs for this class. Enjoy the thrill of woodcarving
with direction from a wood carver with 25 years of experience. NOTE: For
beginner carvers only! Instructor is Don Stansfield.
Monday April 16 at 1:00 to 4:00 pm. Place: RVC Bell School Road Center, room
2. Fee $15.00
Learning
Seminar
Michigan Wood Carvers, May 21 through 25, 2018 at the fairgrounds in Midland, MI 6905 Eastman Ave, 48642. 17 instructors.
Wayne Barton, Chip Carving advanced
Gary Bityk, Architectural fantasies in cottonwood bark
Carol Jean Boyd, Cyprus Knee carving
Doug Evans, Beginning Carving
Gary Falin, Charicature carving/hand
Dave Stirling, S. W. Owl-power
Leah Goddard, realistic animal, carve and paint, hand and power
Chris Howard, Native American/ power carved
Dick Lamphier, Realistic cariature; expressions and details/hand
Brenda Lodermeier, Wood burning
Floyd Rhadigar, Caricature carving
Dave Sharp, Realistic animal
Fred & Elane Stenman, Shaoolw relief/wood burning/painting
Bob Thurston, Caricature carving
Debbie Edwards, Realistic animals
Bruce Henn, Caricature carving
Michigan Wood Carvers
website is www.miwoodcarvers.com
2018
Congress Seminar Registration
Maquoketa, IA
5 Day Class : Monday, June 11 to
Friday, June 15
$225.00
Chris Howard - Realistic Human Bust
Carving
Janet Denton Cordell - Human Figgres,
Animals
John Engler - Relief Carving and
Painting
Vic Hood - Carvinga bust in butternut
Leah Goddard - Realistic Animal
Carving
3 Day Classes: Wednesday, June 13,
to Friday,
June 15 $135.00
Carole Jean Boyd - Carving Santa
Bottlestopper
John Guge, Carving & Painting a Rufous Hummmingbird
Denny Neubauer - Carving little people
Bruce Shostak - A beginners intro to
woodcarving
Rick Harney - Portrait relief carving
Alec LaCasse - Realistic bark carving
Michele Parsons - Intro to Pyrography
Ryan Olsen - Caricature Carving
Jan Jensen - Old world Chip Carving
2 Day Classes: Monday, June 11, June 12
$90.00
Alec LeCasse - Realistic bark carving
Jan Jensen - Old world chip carving
Ryan Olsen - Caricature carving
Michele Parsons - Intro to Pyrography
1 Day Class: Saturday, June 16
$45.00
Denny Neubauer - Knife sharpening
Michele Parsons - Intro to Pyrography
Ryan Olsen - Caricature carving
For more information go to
thewoodcraftshop@mchsi.com
Musky
Area Wood Carvers Workshop -
August 14 - 17, 2018
Wes Spadgenske will be leading a
class in carving Lady Slippers, the state flower of Minnesota.
Dan Haack will teach carving caricatures and wood spirits.
Bob Harris will be painting and carving a Baltimore Oriole.
Larry Stenzel will be teaching Wood Burning Basics.
Dave Kublank will teach a class in spoon carving.
Gordy Moscinski will teach a beginning carving class.
Denny Neubauer will be making a knife, a tin can forge and carving little
people.
Elaine & Fred Stenman will be back to lead a class in low relief
woodcarving.
Greg Wirtz will teach relief carving and will have multiple patterns to
choose from.
James Thalacker will teach how to carve and burn a rainbow trout in
basswood.
Lee Belanger will teach a class on carving a basswood "Whimsical Gnome
Home".
Dorothy Huse and Sylvia Kendzior will be teaching a variety of gourd art.
For more information go to muskyareawoodcarvers.com
Our Sympathy to Sue Watson loss of
her mother Lillian Enge and John Winters a long time member. Also a thank
you to Franklin Johnson donation of his carving first of the month
drawings.
Elaine
Blackhawk Carving Club Minutes February 2018
Minutes of the regular monthly business of Blackhawk
Woodcarvers; held on February 21, 2018 at 3218 Eleventh Street, Rockford,
Illinois.
Opening Remarks:
Gary Curl, our expected speaker today is cancelled due to illness.
President Tyrone Johnsen opened the
meeting at 9:02.
Secretary, Steve Terrill read the
Minutes of the previous meeting. The minutes were
approved as read with the following correction; Tod Wisner will not be doing
the printing for the pending revised picture directory.
Treasurer, John Skaggs reported that
we are solvent.
Membership chair, Chuck Drewes
reported that the 2018 dues are no longer trickling in.
The people who have not paid are typically the Snow Birds from Florida and
will be coming back soon. Our membership is pretty stable
with losing a few and gaining a few new members. We are
around 81 members currently. Tyrone commented that the
updated pictorial directory will not have contact information as that is
available and updated on the online membership list.
Tony Devita will continue to
coordinate the annual picnic and is working on setting that up.
It was suggested that we not set the picnic date for when there will
be a typhoon.
Gordy Moscinski reported the
newsletter continues to be functioning well.
Program Committee:
Tyrone has been acting as chair of the Program Committee.
He has been utilizing a lot of member talent. We
will try to reschedule Gary Curl’s presentation on spoons to May.
Our next speaker is Roger Benedict on Relief Carving and in April
Gordy will present on painting of carvings.
Old Business: We
do have an opportunity for someone interested in coffee to continue making
coffee for the meetings. More than one person can step
forward to help with this if interested.
We are scheduled to have an Open
House to showcase the club on Saturday April 28. The
hours will be 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. There will be a craft
show at the same time in the Gym for Ken Rock. There will
be no cost to us. We will have to share tables so we may
have about 30 tables. There will be no contests or
judging. We hope to have some DVD’s running.
We hope to have a variety of wood carving and word burning samples.
We will need participants. Don Stansfield has been
asked to bring his knives for sale and Gordy will have some roughouts for
sale. Members will have the opportunity to sell their
carving.
New Business:
Gordy will be in charge of a woodcarving workshop in Boulder Wisconsin on
August 14 through 17th. Information will be
available on the website. We had a request to do an
educational program at Wesley Willows in March. Gordy
Moscinski, Bob Matthews and Denny Neubauer stepped up to do that.
Arne Larsen pointed out that Ed
Vittell has not been attending because he has not been feeling well and Lee
Thomas’ wife is just out of the hospital and he will try to start coming
again. Hervell Fuse has not been coming as she takes
public transportation but will be coming as the weather improves.
T
he meeting was adjourned at 9:33.
Respectfully Submitted: Steve
Terrill,
Club Secretary
Club
Officers
(815 area code)
President -
Tyrone Johnsen,
397-9274
Vice Pres. -
Treasurer - John Skaggs, 547-6951
Secretary -
Steve Terrill, 708-0471
Photographer - Larry Clark, 262-9982
Membership - Chuck Drewes,
985-8575
Newsletter Publisher, Gary Johnson 399-1697
Historian - Elaine Terrell 765-2886
Programs -
Picnic -
Again, as a
reminder, I would like to have our club members start bringing in along with
regular SHOW and TELL items, some of your carvings that you have treasured
from the past. We all have
carvings packed away or setting on a shelf that no one has seen for years
except our spouses. I will have
an extra table set up so we can show our favorites on the Wednesdays that we
have our meetings!
Tips and
Tricks Jigs
and Twigs
Many of you have
figured out some easy or unique way of helping out your carving.
Send me some of your tips. Pictures would help
show it even better.
Gordy Moscinski
Want to
buy or sell
If you have anything that you would like to buy or sell send me an email and I will put it in the newsletter.
Gordy
Door
Prizes give away by Franklin Johnson
This week at Blackhawk Woodcarvers
we had 29 members signed in to the monthly drawings. Larry and Tyrone drew
through the list two times before turning into the final free open pick.
Club Open House, Show, & Sale Saturday 28 April
2018
Blackhawk Woodcarvers will hold an Open House with
displays of our wood carvings on Saturday 28 April 2018 at our normal
carving and meeting room at Ken Rock Community Center. We are seizing an
opportunity to showcase our club and the wonderful art and craft of
woodcarving that our members produce and to help expand our club exposure to
the area public. This event will also allow members to sell their carvings
as well as for interested visitors to purchase tools, supplies, and
carvings.
This event will be held at the same time as a Craft Show
held by Ken Rock. They will hold their Craft Show in the gym; and we will
use our normal area, the cafeteria dining ro om.
The Craft Show is set to run from 9 to 3 and we will plan to do the same. We
will both benefit from their advertising and traffic generated.
All club members are invited to participate with
display of their work and, of course, we will need you to make this an
enjoyable event and a success!
Tyrone Johnsen
Show and
Tell pictures by Larry Clark and comments by Steve Terrill
Larry Stenzel showed a woodburned and colored
Bluebird. He also showed a woodburned barn and a woodburned monkey
looking very happy (could it be a self portrait?).
Bob Matthews showed a carved, mounted and painted
Robin captioned “Think Spring”!
Roger Benedict showed a new venture in carving
with a linoleum block cutting for printing. He is auditing an Art
Class in Rockford University. He also showed a relief carving of a
friend with the matching photo. Very lifelike. It has been
juried in to a portrait show in Door County.
Tony Devita showed a spoon he carved out of a
Wine Barrel Stave. He carved a coffin with a bird on top out of cedar.
He also carved a monkey in a golf ball which he painted. He got the
idea from the Rockford Sock Monkey.
Bob Hallstrom carved a jar with chip carving and
stained it to look very dramatic.
