6. Demonstration - "Facial features using fine line techniques" - Another great demo by Dave Peck! He showed us how to create fine lines by line cutting and adding ink details. We worked on a picture of a man with a beard wearing a coat and hat.
1. Rough cut the face veneer with scissors a little bigger than the pattern. Make registration marks on the veneer to line up the pattern.
2. Use Saral transfer paper with a stylus to mark the nose, eyes, eyebrows and ear on the veneer.
3. Put Scotch tape over the lines, both front and back, and put a cereal box cardboard underneath. Tape them together.
4. Use a push pin with an aluminum handle to create the starter holes.
5. Cut lines with a 2/0 blade either flat or bevel to create large kerfs so the lines will be visible. Keep the blade straight up and down to avoid breaking off little pieces. Remove the tape.
6. Put new tape on the front so the filler won't bleed through and apply the filler on the back to fill in the lines.
7. Change to a 5/0 blade and bevel table.
8. Tape the coat/hat veneer underneath. Line up the pattern with the registration marks and trace outside the jacket, through the beard, along the cap/face line and outside the cap to over cut both pieces at once.
9. Since the new veneer is coming up from the bottom, keep the new veneer on the upside of the saw blade.
10. Cut a piece of veneer for the beard and bring it up from the bottom. First cut out the mouth with the beard veneer on the downside of the blade since the mouth will be dropping from the top down. Over cut the beard areas that are touching areas that haven't been added yet.
11. Cut in the hat band.
12. Cut in the background.
13. Trace the coat detail lines onto the picture and draw on the lines with an Energel liquid gel pen (purchased at an office supply store.) Dave finds that this pen doesn't bleed when you add the finish.
