Charles DUBANT Posted November 12, 2010 Report Share Posted November 12, 2010 Good morning everybody, I'm new on the forum but glad I've found it. I have been interested in bone carving for about a year (well before I didn't even thought about it), back from Tahiti to see my uncle & aunt, I decided to give it a try. My first contact with bone carving was there, where I met a tattooist / bone carver named Patrick Laux (Patu). He showed me his work and then I told me "this is what I wanna do from now on". I bought a dremel (power tool) and sand paper to get started and also became friend with my butcher... well, the first time he clearly tought I was a weird freak but whatever he gave me bone without knowing what I was about to carve in it I did my first carving which was a "hair pick" (I don't know how to say it in english to be honest) with gross carving but it did the trick and people liked it. As for me, I loved it, it was my very first carving, I still love it even if I know now that it was barely carving, I would say almost raw bone. Whatever I went on with this hobby and I'm still very keen on it. Then I wanted to get advices and some hints/tips from pro carvers and couldn't find any. Afterwards I read an article on the internet with a link to Natascha Popova's website and I immediately decided to contact her, she has been very nice to me and gave me a lot of tips and photos to show me how she "hand" carves... Since then I started to hand-carve, before I did everything with power tools with some poor results because of the lack of control the use of power tools induce... She also told me about this forum so here I am. Thank you in advance, Charles DUBANT. PS : I'm going to create a topic to show the new hair pick I worked on yesterday (public holiday in France) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Seton-Browne Posted November 12, 2010 Report Share Posted November 12, 2010 Welcome to the forum. Please don't put your carving down I think it is great and have been trying to do something similar for a while. Your hairpin is wonderful and is beautifully carved. Keep going - if that is your first piece I look forward to seeing more. Sandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles DUBANT Posted November 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2010 Hi and thanks, Yes this was mi first piece a year ago. You can see some of my work on the blog I created http://matau.free.fr. My last one is the one I posted in the "Show your work" (or something like that ) section of the forum. Thanks again and can you give me a link to your work? Your avatar image seems really amazing, did you do it? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Seton-Browne Posted November 12, 2010 Report Share Posted November 12, 2010 Like the website images. My stuff is under New members about a page and a half ago. there are some expert bone carvers on this site and a lot of good advice is available as well as good advice from every one else. My avatar is my last creation based on a chinese jade that i saw on the cover of National Geographic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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