PebbleCreek Woodcarvers Club starts the new carving season in October and has several new classes planned for this season. The club had several small classes this summer. One new class was learning how to build a Native American-style flute. The flutes can be seen in the club’s display window in the Creative Arts Center. Here…
PebbleCreek Woodcarvers Club members completed a Flower Bloom woodcarving class on April 12, 2019. The Flower Bloom is a Morning Glory flower with several leaves and a stem. The carving is beautiful by itself, but it also serves as a mount for a Hummingbird carved in an earlier class. Three of the completed carvings show…
If you have ever stopped by the Woodcarvers’ room in the Creative Arts Center you probably have seen strange and interesting creations that push reality a bit. Richard Schmidt created one of these creatures by carving a Black Bear with antlers from a Whitetail Deer. It is called a Beer. The piece is created entirely…
PebbleCreek Woodcarvers Club members completed a Northwest Ceremonial Bowl woodcarving class on November 30, 2018. Each class member decided on a bowl design based on their research and what appealed to them. They carved their bowls using knives, chisels, gouges and rotary tools. Most of the bowls are Western Red Cedar. David’s bowl is Alaskan…
Monte Curtis is one of many accomplished woodcarvers in the PebbleCreek Woodcarvers Club. Monte and his wife, Marjorie, moved to PebbleCreek in October 1995. Marjorie wanted them to join the hiking club and a woodcarving group that was just forming. The woodcarving group was led by Mel Donaho and it was not an official club…
Tom Wick is one of many accomplished woodcarvers in the PebbleCreek Woodcarvers Club. Tom moved to PebbleCreek about seven years ago and started woodcarving shortly after arriving. He was new to woodcarving and the club members quickly taught him the basics, then helped him to develop his skills on projects that interested him. Tom carves…
Jeannette McElroy is one of many accomplished woodcarvers in the PebbleCreek Woodcarvers Club. In January 2004 a friend told Jeannette that he needed something to do in the mornings and he had joined the PebbleCreek Woodcarving Club. Jeannette thought that this was interesting but was afraid that she did not have enough strength in her…
Larry Matney The PebbleCreek Woodcarvers Club has most of the 2018/2019 carving season classes planned and it will be an exciting season. Classes start in October 2018 and the last one finishes in April 2019. For class details stop by the Quail Room in the Creative Arts Building and there is a sign-up list on…
Larry Matney PebbleCreek Woodcarvers Club members completed a beginners’ woodcarving class on January 24, 2018. Class members were Joel Hawkins (instructor), Judy Caruthers, Roger Liddle, Larry Matney and Don Smith. Carving a decorative spoon is a great beginners project because it has all the steps of a more complex project but the spoon can be…
Larry Matney For the month of January, the PebbleCreek Woodcarvers Club had an additional display space in the Creative Arts building that contained woodcarvings with feathers. Most of the carvings were birds, but there was one mask and even a flying pig. It was a treat to see a large group of carvings on a…