About The Author

I was born over seventy years ago, in the "piney woods" of East Texas, in a little log cabin just outside of Lufkin. My dad was a share cropper and we moved around often as we followed the crops. When the oil fields of West Texas opened up in the 1930's, my dad got a job with one of the oil companies so that's how I landed out West where I have lived since. I became an artist, working in both oils and acrylics, long before I took up serious woodcarving about fifteen years ago. I carve mostly in the round and usually old western characters. I have been in classes under folks like Harold Enlow, Claude Bolton, Jack Price, Pete LeClair, Danny Reb, Dick Spinney, Jerry Bob Taylor and many more great instructors. I belong to the Mustang Draw Woodcarvers Club, the National Woodcarvers Association and am life member #31 of the Texas Woodcarvers Guild. I wrote my first book about four years ago at the encouragement of my wife Virginia. She has been a tremendous amount of help in finishing both books. The books are written with the beginner in mind as well as the more advanced carver. I try to keep the instructions as basic and straight forward as possible. I do this because I remember how intimidating carving looked when I first started. My desire, as a writer, and an instructor, is to help each person have fun with this great art form and hobby.

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