Showing posts with label woodwork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label woodwork. Show all posts

Friday, September 14, 2018

Carving Dragon Scales



Over the years my husband has been doing woodwork and is self-taught. I didn't think about recording ourselves or progress of our projects over the last 5 years until I started looking into Pateron recently. I realized I already started on my own content on Instagram within the past year but I wasn't getting many views unless I shared it from Instagram onto our Facebook page. This prompted me to start a youtube channel since Instagram only allowed very short video posts until IGTV rolled out. I bearly had a YouTube presence about 8-10 years ago and didn't have much content at that time.

Just this week I just learned how to make animated gifs in Gimp 2 and learned I can upload them onto the Giphy website and convert it to a mp4 file type to use in our videos. I started using them in my Beadwork 2017-2018 video. I plan on making a few gifs for Drekiwolf's facebook page and record more videos of his woodwork and bone carving for IGTV on both of our Instagram accounts and our YouTube channel.




This is his first video of carving dragon scales on a wand handle. This particular wand is called Dragon Guardian, carved by my husband with his foot pedal dremel. When this wand is finished, it will be available in our Mercari shop. Don't forget to subscribe and hit the bell to let you know new videos have been uploaded onto Youtube. He has more woodwork, and bone carving projects planned. One future video may be a mammoth tusk he found at a gem and fossil show a few years ago. Soon, he will be getting into chainsaw carvings. He will be getting a Stihl chainsaw with a carving bar for his 31st birthday at the end of September.


We will also be going to a Gem and fossil show at this time and I hope I can find some cabochons to use in my future beadwork projects. I'll try to remember to get some photos and video of that trip. I have a rose quartz heart, a red starfish and a few other bead embroidery projects planned. 

Eye or Evil Eye

Small heart

Steampunk clock and gear heart

Red starfish