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If you are a first time carver, novice or even a professional it is always a good idea to have a plan of attack. Each time I carve a sculpture I use the Ten Steps to 3D sculpting. This process was adopted by The National Ice Carving Association and is the recommended way to teach young carvers how to get started.
Breaking a carving down into steps really helps you streamline the process. There is less thinking about the next step, wondering what should I work on now?
The 10 Steps to 3D Carving are:
1. Design and template
2. Tracing
3. First Dimension
4. Perfecting the First Dimension
5. Connecting Reference Points
6. Blocking In
7. Rounding
8. Sanding
9. Detailing
10. Cleaning
If you are considering taking any ice carving classes than this is the one to take. This class will teach you the process of making any ice sculpture and not just show you how to carve a swan or an angel fish. We stress learning the process.
Other seminars available:
• Precision cutting; carving. cubes. spheres. columns. pyramids. cone. discs. block splitting. and basic rounding
• Fusion
• Logo reproduction and colorizing logos
• Ice textures and detailing
• Carving the face and hands
• Carving luges
• Competition preparation and design
Apprenticeship Program
Ask us about our apprenticeship program? Be a full time ice carver for 4 weeks or more and learn all the skills of working in an ice carving facility, such as
• harvesting ice
• carve ice almost every day
• delivering ice and set ups
• we will thoroughly go over all seminars listed listed on this page (except carving face and hands)
Greg Butauski - Credentials
• Organized 2007 NICA Trade show in Columbus, OH
• Presented seminars at the ACF Regional Conferences: Columbus, OH; Pittsburgh, PA; Denver, CO
• Taught seminars for NICA trade shows in: Columbus, OH; Chicago, IL; Boca Raton, FL
• Taught seminars at Collegiate Nationals and Collegiate Invitational events for NICA
• Designed educational ice carving events for students
• Designed educational ice carving website for NICA School of Ice www.nica.org/schoolofice
Classes & Seminars