Guest DEMONSTRATIONS and Hands On
Nick agar - all day demonstration - saturday, november 16, 2019
Confederation Education Centre,
1645 Woodroffe Avenue at Hunt Club
1645 Woodroffe Avenue at Hunt Club
Turning, texturing, carving and coloring bowls and platters with Nick Agar.
In this demonstration Nick will
- Turn one of his iconic Viking bowls using push pull and shear cutting, and texture it using Sorby spiraling tools and background punches, with further application of wood dyes and metallic gilt paste culminating in an effect resembling a pewter wrapped bowl with a sunset interior and metallic boss centre.
- Turn and decorate a platter using airbrushing to enhance the surface, with peel-off and unique infill stencils.
- Turn and carve an ancient bronzed bowl, employing carbide tips and rotary brushes for the texture and reactive paints and Chroma-Gilt to give a realistic aged rust and verdigris patina.
LEE VALLEY HANDS-ON CLASSES WITH NICK AGAR - NOV 15 & 19
The Viking sunset bowl (see Nick’s website http://turningintoart.com/bowls.php , images 3 and 4), will be the topic taught in two all-day Lee Valley hands-on classes at the Lee Valley Ottawa store, on Friday November 15 and Tuesday 19. Club members will be advised when LV advertises these. Places will be limited to 6-8 persons per class.
NICK AGAR
Nick Agar is an award-winning wood artist with work in major collections worldwide, including royalty. He is known especially for his surface enhancement techniques which include carving, texturing, airbrushing and ceramic and metal effects. With his 25+ years of experience in the field Nick is a much sought-after and respected exhibitor and teacher on the world woodturning stage.
David Ellsworth Demonstration, Sunday April 23rd
David Ellsworth's first experience with the lathe was in a woodshop class in 1958, After high school he served three years in the military followed by eight years in college studying architecture drawing and sculpture, receiving a Master's degree in Fine Art from the University of Colorado in 1973. He started the woodworking program at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado in 1974, and the following year opened his first private woodturning studio in Boulder Colorado. It was during the mid-1970's that David developed a series of bent turning tools and the methods required for making the thin-walled hollow forms of which he id known worldwide.
His first article titled, "Hollow Turning" appeared in the May/June 1979 issue of Fine Woodworking Magazine. His first book, Ellsworth on Woodturning, was published by Fox Chapel Publ. in 2008. David is the founding member of the American Association of Woodturners, of which he was president from 1986-1991, and its first Honorary Lifetime Member. He has written over fifty articles on subjects related to craft and woodturning and has operated the Ellsworth School of Woodturning at his home and studio in Buck's County, Pennsylvania since 1990. His works have been included in the permanent collections of thirty-six museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He has taught workshops throughout the world and has received fellowship grants from the National Endowment of Arts, the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, and the PEW Foundation. In 2009 he was elected the "Master of the Medium" by the James A. Renwick Alliance of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. He is an Honorary Lifetime Member of the Collectors of Wood Art, and a Fellow and a former Trustee of the American Craft Council.
David Ellsworth's first experience with the lathe was in a woodshop class in 1958, After high school he served three years in the military followed by eight years in college studying architecture drawing and sculpture, receiving a Master's degree in Fine Art from the University of Colorado in 1973. He started the woodworking program at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado in 1974, and the following year opened his first private woodturning studio in Boulder Colorado. It was during the mid-1970's that David developed a series of bent turning tools and the methods required for making the thin-walled hollow forms of which he id known worldwide.
His first article titled, "Hollow Turning" appeared in the May/June 1979 issue of Fine Woodworking Magazine. His first book, Ellsworth on Woodturning, was published by Fox Chapel Publ. in 2008. David is the founding member of the American Association of Woodturners, of which he was president from 1986-1991, and its first Honorary Lifetime Member. He has written over fifty articles on subjects related to craft and woodturning and has operated the Ellsworth School of Woodturning at his home and studio in Buck's County, Pennsylvania since 1990. His works have been included in the permanent collections of thirty-six museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He has taught workshops throughout the world and has received fellowship grants from the National Endowment of Arts, the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, and the PEW Foundation. In 2009 he was elected the "Master of the Medium" by the James A. Renwick Alliance of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. He is an Honorary Lifetime Member of the Collectors of Wood Art, and a Fellow and a former Trustee of the American Craft Council.
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