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| Zany caricature portrait of a woman playing Rugby wearing a "Batman:" costume. |
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| About to draw another caricature at Holt Renfew at the newly renovated Sherway Gardens Mall at the Queensway in weat Toronto |
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| Oh! another zany caricature in progress! |
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| I usually start drawing the hair of the person. It has individual and unique characteristics. |
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| Over the shoulder view while drawng a caricature. |
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| Taking a break from portrait drawing and posing for a selfie with a golden statue of a Nut Cracker soldier |
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| The carving was made from bass wood for the main head and pine for the ears and antlers. I am starting to recieve orders for this carving! |
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| Antlers measure 12 inches/ 30 cm wide. |
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| I createda similar carving f bout 12 years ago. It is on my website in the wood carving section |
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| This is the rough plan drawing of the front and side view for the carving . drawn to the size of the final carving. The head measures 10 inches / 25cm from the back to the front edge of the nose. |
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| Moose HEAD IMAGES ARE POPULAR ON OUTDOOR MAGAZINES AND BEER LABELS! |
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| My talented wife created a colourful hat and scarf for my wood carved moose head. |
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| The Festive or WINTER moose! |
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| THE ZANY WINTER WONDERLAND MOOSE! |
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| Samples of the drawings I created for my Water's Edge Colouring Book. Features Largemouth Bass. Black Crappie, Mother Moose and Calf, Brook Trout and Octopus. |
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| Sample drawings from My Colouring Book Water's Edge Wildlife Collection includes; Muskie, Sunfish, Walleye, Sauger, Yellow Perch, Northern Pike and Smallmouth Bass. |
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| Cover of my Water's Edge Colouring book 26 images for colouring. Featuring a variety of Flora and Fauna of the Water's Edge World. Only $8.00 icluding shipping Canadian Only $12. shipping outside of CANADA mention you saw my coloring book on my blog and receive for free my illustrated Fishes of Toronto book! Please , send order to; Charles Weiss 34 Hughey Cres. Toronto, Ontario M1k 2v4 Canada |
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| Drawing Plan of Giant Walleye |
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| Thebody is almosty completely carved from basswood and the fins are cut and shaped from pine. A 22 cm manufactured Eye is added |
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| This is a life like carving icluding raised gill cover with carved gills. |
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| Mouth detail with added teeth and top quality eye . |
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| Comparing two carings ;top; 31 inch, length, 19 inch girth weighing approximately 14 pounds with closed mouth bottom: 34 inch length, 20 inch girth weighing about 16 and ahalf pounds. |
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| Award wnning fish carvng titled Walleye Chase includes a yellow perch with a curved red paine plank background. |
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| The carving is complete . Next step is paintng in a realistic way. |
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| scales drawn with a dark brown umber coloured pencil and clear coated. |
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| mixture of yellow ochre, hooker green , umber and some iredescent siver and bronze. |
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| Detail of the side of the head, fin and scale detail. |
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| Eye and head deatil of acrylic painting. |
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| finished sideview. |
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| Raised gill cover detail of red gills. |
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| Added mouth close up detail |
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| Looking for scary ghosts at the Black Creek Pioneer Village! |
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| TOUR GUIDE TELLS OF A VARIETY OF GHOST-LIKE MOMENTS INCLUDING A COLD HAND TRYING TO PUSH HER DOWN THE STAIRS! yikes! |
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| No ghosts resting on old furniture. |
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| GRAVE YARD S FILLED WITH AN Spooky LIGHT |
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| Black lace of reflections across the old pond! |
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| Copper lined kettle is used to start the beer fermenting . |
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| The brewing mixture is filtered and poured into the barrel. |
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| The Brewery Tour guide "Blyth" was very animated in explaining the beer making process. |
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| Sampling of the beer made right at Black Creek Pioneer Village. Inluding Lager, stout and India Pale Ale. |
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| Interesting and thought provoking caribou antler carving with the skull attached. |
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| Description of antler carving |
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| Tom Thompson oil paintng of a trio of Brook Trout |
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| Framed portrait was fun. Looks like it was raining cats and dogs |
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| Scenic view of the city looking south from the Art Gallery window covered staircase. |
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| Old Caricature style of adding human portraits to animal bodies! |
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| Metamorphosis is a hybrid style of Caricature portraits. I've used this concept in a series of MY Fish Carvings. |
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| Rippledselfie photo portrait in elevator of the Art Gallery. |
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| Animal head (cat?) carved in a "tiller"handle. part of the basement model ship exhibition |
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| I couldn't resist having a self portrait with the CN Tower growing out of my head. |
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| Exit through the gift shop /book store had a chance to see the giant Taschen published photographs by Annie Leibovitz book. Features Pamela Anderson in a wet shirt!? |
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| Standing at the corner of McCaul and Dundas streets This is where I met my wife in 1996 on September 9 th. The coffee shop in the background was called "Second Cup" back in those days, now it's called "Orange Alert Cafe". |
