{"id":1635,"date":"2018-01-01T23:33:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T23:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ber10thal.com\/blog\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2018-01-02T02:11:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T02:11:20","slug":"a-beginners-woodcarving-journey-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/a-beginners-woodcarving-journey-part-5\/","title":{"rendered":"A beginner\u2019s woodcarving journey \u2013 Part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bear with Trout (<\/strong>based on Splatoon 2 Mr. Grizz)<\/p>\n

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This one came out better then I expected. I made it in the Scandinavian flat plane carving style. I got frustrated at the end of this project and just started quickly lopping off chunks of wood to create the flat planes.<\/p>\n

I broke the fishes mouth when trying to carve it, and Elemers glued it back together. Originally I wanted it to be a salmon, but I painted it green (thinking fish are green) then realized salmon are silver in color. My wife said it still looked good and even sent me a photo of a bear catching a trout, so she made it okay for me.<\/p>\n

Dale Kirkpatrick an amazing carver taught me after this to paint the wood wet. I painted this one dry and the brown and green was too dark. Painting it wet keeps the paint from soaking in too much and getting too dark. I ended up lightly sanding this with a very fine sanding pad foam thing. It lighted up and make it look distressed.<\/p>\n

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