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W "PETE"LeCLAIR

Master Caricature Carver from North West America.


Touring Australia February/March 2000.
For Australian seminar venues, visit the Woodart Bulletin Board and check out the Carving Topic.
That's Pete in the white cap in the back row!

W "Pete" LeClair

W "Pete" LeClair started carving in 1973.
From 1980 to 1985 he taught caricature carving as part of an Adult Edication program.
In 1991 he started teaching caricature carving seminars throughout the North East of North America.
1994 elected to the Caricature Carvers of America (C.C.A)
1995 Published a woodcarving book "Carving Caricature Heads and Faces". Since then has taught seminars all over the USofA.
March 1999 retired from fulltime job after 39 years, to pursue woodcarving fulltime.
Pete is a member of the Caricature Carvers of America. This group of carvers are well known for carving the "half Moon Saloon" and other group collections, the most recent being the High Hope Lodge.

Please wait a few seconds - you will see rotating views of the High Hopes Lodge scene.


The following images are pictures of Pete's work - Enjoy!
Click on an image for fullsize figure.
Pete was one of the team of instructors at the Mystic Carvers Retreat at the Rhode Island University during the Columbus Day holiday weekend in October.
Ainslie Pyne, Australian woodsculptor, also on the teaching panel, joined one of Pete's classes to witness firsthand, his amazing dexterity with a knife and his enthusiasm for teaching this fascinating style of carving.

Pete's adept methods for the carving of facial structure and features bring "alive" his characters in such a way that ALL carvers would surely benefit from the chance to give their figurative carvings that something "extra" to make them more "animated" and less "wooden" than the average pose we carvers seem to come up with ..

BE WARNED THOUGH:
There is certainly never a dull moment (or a knife edge!!) in any of W "Pete" LeClair's carving classes; come and join us and find out!




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