Posts Tagged ‘jeff wolf’

Jeff Wolf presents Relief Wood Sculpting

“From a Lump of Clay to Fine Art” (in a matter of minutes! You have to see this.)

A webinar presented to The Inspiration and Encouragement Network on August 4, 2010.

In this webinar, Jeff takes us through the steps of creating a relief sculpture from sculpting clay. The sculpture is of a whitetail deer jumping over a log. Sculpting in clay before you begin carving can save you a lot of time and materials when it comes to creating that perfect wood relief carving or sculpture.

If something is not quite right, re-do it – CLAY IS MUCH MORE FORGIVING THAN WOOD!

Watch Jeff sculpt this Whitetail Deer Scene right before your eyes – (he completed the relief sculpture in 48 minutes! START TO FINISH!

If you want to take your carving to a higher level, now is a great time to try what Jeff teaches.

Jeff Offers Sculpting Classes to dramatically improve your sculpting and carving! Visit Jeff’s Sculpting Class page to learn more.

Watch the Recorded Version of the Webinar Below:

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Jeff Wolf – World Renowned Sculptor presents Sculpting From The Inside Out

What is “Sculpting From The Inside Out?”

It’s exactly like it sounds – starting with the bone structure, laying on the muscles and tissue, then continuing to work outward to the skin, hair, or outer layer of the animal or object you are sculpting.

In this webinar, Jeff explained how anatomy is so important to improving your art projects. It doesn’t matter if you draw, engrave, carve, or sculpt. You simply cannot disregard anatomy. This is something you must understand in order to “get to that next level.”

Jeff goes through the process of sculpting a horse skull, but he also explains how every animal, including deer, elk – even humans – have similar structures that this process relates closely to.

Learning to sculpt in clay – before you carve – will save you a ton of time – and money. Sculpting (Modeling)  Clay is much more forgiving than wood. Get it right in the clay, then carve your project. This is the way experienced carvers and sculptors do it. They work out the mistakes in the clay first, getting the design just right – then the carving is much quicker and the results are far better (and you never ruin your buddy’s gun stock!)

Watch the Full Presentation below:

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Bringing Your Carvings and Engravings  to Life

Let’s be honest – this is what separates the men from the boys (no offense girls – women  – ladies – I’m digging a hole here – move on!).

Anyways….

We’ve all seen that deer with “Larger than Life” antlers. Guess what?

If the antlers are “larger than life” – it doesn’t look real and it is more of a cartoon than art.

Keith Hone told me that one of the questions that he loves to ask his students is this…

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