Douglas Pryor

Last year I had the opportunity to teach at the Virginia Institute of Blacksmithing, a community driven educational cent...

Over the years I've taught a number of face study classes and projects. I've always wanted to add a skull study into the...

         I’m approaching 10 years of teaching which is wild to me because it feels like only yesterday that Steve Grater...

The first moment I had the headdress cut out and fitted to the skull felt like pure magic. It felt like I was working wi...

There is a magical sense of relief when the hard part is done. Finding my way to the end of this maze has been super edu...

Puzzles! The chaos of creation! The joy of drawing and imperfection!

Forging and Chasing a Steel Face! Mixing hot work over shaping stakes, slow anneals, and cold work working from both sid...

I'm crawling out of my post holiday shell and finding a busy season ahead of me!What I am looking forward to most this y...

Our last chapter of this project brings out a few new tools, and the best of our subtle planishing.

We'll be looking at our final shapes, how to finish the hair segments, and some surface clean up methods including using...

Repoussé, or work done from the inside of the project, has some huge advantages and shortcomings.

Making a rubbing is a low tech, fast, and a guaranteed way to make an exact copy of your line work. Let start the rest o...

Shaping stake correction methods with soft faced hammers and gathering passes to make room for some free hand hair style...

In this chapter we're going to focus on refining the balance between the convex and concave curves of the horn.

In Chapter Six we deepen and build the lower face and draw out the horns!