Comedy Paint guide Hat: black Hat: black Duo Hat band: gray Hat band: burgundy Hair: black Hair: burnt sienna Tie: blue Bow tie: green Shirt: yellow ochre Shirt: white Jacket: uniform blue Jacket: raw sienna (DecoArt Americana) Vest: uniform blue Vest: red (DecoArt Americana) Pants: tan Pants: burnt sienna Shoes: burnt sienna Shoes: black materials MATERIALS: TOOLS: & tools • Basswood, 3" (76mm) thick: Hardy, • Bench knife 3 1/4" x 6 1/2" (83mm x 165mm) • Detail knife • Basswood, 2" (51mm) thick: Laurel, • Micro gouge: 5mm Carvings pay homage to ven as carvings, funny men Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are 2 3/4" x 6" (70mm x 152mm) • #3 gouge: 1/2" (13mm) inseparable. You can’t have one without the other! And I hear their two real-life caricatures E • Acrylic paint: black, grey, red, blue, • #7 gouge: 3/8" (10mm) signature tune, “The Dance of the Cuckoos,” in my head every time I yellow ochre, tan, burnt sienna, By Floyd Rhadigan • #9 gouge: 3/16" (5mm), carve them. burgundy, raw sienna, green, white; DecoArt Americana: 1/4" (6mm) These carving are my homage to the slapstick duo who took the uniform blue • V-tools: 1/8" (3mm), 3/16" (5mm), film industry by storm from the 1920s through the 1940s. The pair 1/4" (6mm), 1/2" (13mm) The author used these products for the project. Substitute appeared in 107 films. Stan Laurel, the tall, thin, clumsy Englishman, your choice of brands, tools, and materials as desired. • Paintbrushes played the perfect foil to the heavyset American, Oliver Hardy. 2 Woodcarving Illustrated | HOLIDAY 2015 www.woodcarvingillustrated.com 3 Laurel and Hardy patterns 2015 Woodcarving2015 Illustrated © © Floyd Rhadigan is the past president of the Caricature Carvers of America. His books Carving Fantasy Creatures and SPECIAL SOURCES: Carving Fantasy Characters are available Roughouts are available for the pair for $30 plus S&H from Floyd from Fox Chapel Publishing at www. Rhadigan. Contact [email protected] or 734-649-3259 foxchapelpublishing.com. 4 Woodcarving Illustrated | HOLIDAY 2015.