The Maumee Bay Carvers Association has scheduled a public seminar with Gary Joe Bryan on January 23, 2009 at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ottawa Refuge Visitor Center. Read more about this one-day program, focused on carving and painting a Ruddy Duck, in IWCA News on the Message Boards.
1/1/09
IWCA News: Ken Lowe, IWCA Rep for the East Carolina Wildlife Arts Festival, has clarified a recent question about entry of IWCA Style Decoys in their show. According to Lowe, IWCA Style decoys belong in Division D: Pamlico Gunning Decoys. This division will be judged according to IWCA rules, Section 8, for IWCA Style Decoys. For a closer look at these rules, click here.
12/30/08
IWCA Library: Vic Kirkman demonstrates his method of setting eyes in the Lesser Scaup drake. Four videos, each almost 10 minutes in length, give you an over-the-shoulder view as Vic sets and finishes eye placement. Click here to read this exciting new IWCA offering.
12/19/08
Mentor's Bench:
So, you've carved a few birds and you wonder just how good they are. Everyone in your family loves them, but you know your wife would say it's beautiful even if the block you started with looked more like a Canvasback than the carving you finished with. How do you get an objective evaluation of your work? Click here to learn more.
12/17/08
R. Madison Mitchell joins the IWCA Carving Legends in the IWCA Library. This article is reprinted here by permission of Decoy Magazine. Read more about R. Madison Mitchell.
The entry form for the 2009 DWCA contest is now posted in the IWCA Event Calendar.Go to the calendar and find the DWCA show on March 14, 2009. Click on th eentry form to download and print a copy.
11/18/08
IWCA is offering a free posting of one carving (up to three photos) on the IWCA Wildlife Art Gallery to any IWCA member.
The gallery is a flat-fee, no-commission service for wildlife artists. Photographs of the work are posted in the gallery with details of the piece supplied by the seller and their contact information. Buyers contact and work with the seller directly. IWCA is not involved in the sale and takes no commission.
IWCA offers a dictionary of terms and jargon used by carvers around the world. If you are new to the wildfowl carving fraternity, we hope you'll find this dictionary helpful. And if it doesn't hold the terms you are searching for, please send that term to us so we can add it to the dictionary for all future users.
If you are an experienced carver, you'll be familiar with most of these terms, and many more. Please contribute ideas, both terms and definitions, and let us know if a definition we post is weak or inaccurate.
Expect this dictionary to grow with photographs, links, examples, and other educational attributes that help new carvers, and perhaps some experienced carvers, understand the jargon used in different ways at different shows in different parts of the world.
