[Woodcarver] Wife's perspective: What A Relief

[Bill Judt]

This is Bill's wife, I'd like to get my 2 cents in before he comes home 
from his best friends wedding picture-time.
He may give the list his definition of relief carving, but his first 
experiences with carving is why I call it "relief".
When he was a novice carver he struggled with designs, laminations, 
cupping, finishing techniques and all other aspects of carving where 
mistakes could happen. There were many times that a carving was "pulled 
off" by some miracle and when the hangers went on the back and it was 
placed on the wall, my Bill would release this huge sign of "relief", 
in amazement giving thanks that it had worked.

For his first few carvings I actually believed that is why it was 
called "relief". To this day I know that this aspect is still part of 
some 'Unofficial" definition.

Many thanks to all of you, for all the years you have been such an 
interesting part of my (our) lives,

Debbie J


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W.F. Judt,
46 Harvard Cres,
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
S7H3R1
PH: 306-373-6649
Email: bjudt at sasktel.net
Website: http://www.wwwoodcarver.com

On Dec 30, 2003, at 1:22 PM, Victor Hamburger wrote:

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> David Andreychek wrote:
>>
>> Is carving a figure and then attaching it to a background considered
>> relief carving?   The back of the figure is not carved, but flat.
>
> Dave,
>
> Grinling Gibbons carved his deep relief panels in layers, sometimes 2, 
> sometimes
> 3 layers to get the depth and contrast that he was looking for.  If 
> you consider
> his carvings relief carvings, and I can't think of anything else to 
> call them,
> then yes, attaching carvings to the back panel would seem to be fair 
> game!
>
> 	Best,	Vic H
>
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