Larry Matney Richard Schlotzhauer is the PebbleCreek Woodcarvers Club woodcarver of the month for December, 2019. Richard and his wife moved to PebbleCreek in 2004 and joined the carving club in 2017. He had previous woodworking experience, but had never tried carving until a friend introduced him to carving and to the club. His first…
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…
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…
Dale Sevig is one of many accomplished woodcarvers in the PebbleCreek Woodcarvers Club. Dale carves many different subjects and recently completed a mask based on an exhibit at the Heard Museum called Yua: Henri Matisse and the Inner Arctic Spirit. The exhibit looked at how Henri Matisse was influenced by Yup’ik (Alaskan Natives) masks. The…
Larry Matney Roger Borlaug is one of many accomplished woodcarvers in the PebbleCreek Woodcarvers Club. In this picture he holds a reduced size Northwest Indian Eagle Mask he recently carved and painted. Full size masks are much larger and are normally worn as part of special ceremonies. The masks are brightly colored and made in…
If you stop by the Quail Room in the Creative Arts Center it is normal to see Woodcarving Club members at the tables using an assortment of cutting tools to create interesting carvings. If you go farther into the room and look behind the cabinets near the front of the room you will see an…
Larry Matney Cynthia Schwartz and her husband Michael moved to PebbleCreek in August 2017. They quickly became involved with pickleball, softball and woodcarving. Cynthia was the first to join the Woodcarvers Club and was just interested in learning how to carve. She had never carved before. She took an introductory class to learn basic carving…
Larry Matney PebbleCreek Woodcarvers Club members hand carved a custom designed chess set and raffled it to raise funds for the Woodcarvers Club. The raffle winner was picked at the end of the Meet the Artists Show and the winner was Bill Van Trump. The chess set was created in late 2017 and early 2018…