Videos & Materials

Everything you need to build naturalistic environments that actually look real, in one place.

On-demand video training, complete DVD box sets, pre-cast detail pieces, and the Carve-Right™ sculptural concrete mix, built for professionals and accessible to anyone willing to learn. Whether you are tackling your first backyard project or expanding what you offer as a contractor, this is where you start.

Video thumbnail showing a cluster of sculpted reddish-brown tree trunks with exposed root structures in an outdoor garden setting, surrounded by lush green foliage and a stone wall. Video is 1 minute 25 seconds in length

Video-On-Demand Library

VODs (Videos-On-Demand) allow you to choose your lesson and immediately download it to your computer for viewing.

All four DVD sets from Richard L. Winget's Rockscape 101 instructional series displayed together: Series 1 (2-disc), Series 2 Laguna Tide Pool and Spa Project (3-disc), Series 3 U.S. Navy Corpsmen Memorial Project (2-disc), and Series 4 Idyllwild Granite Boulders Pool & Spa Project (3-disc)

DVD Series

I've produced 4 different DVD sets, documenting and sharing my process through 4 real-world projects.

(I'm now able to offer these DVD series here as digital downloads. If you're still interested in buying the physical DVD discs, please email me here for details Thank you.)

Two golden-yellow bracket fungi with concentric ridges mounted on a dark, deeply textured tree trunk, photographed indoors in a workshop setting

Branch-Ends & Fungus Cast Pieces

Hand-made realistic cast pieces, for bringing even more life to your naturalistic creations and projects.

clode-up of rebar bender made by Richard l. Winget

Rebar Benders

Rebar Benders are the first tools that are used on a rockwork project for shaping the rebar and getting the geometry correct. I've used many different types and found flaw with lots of them which aided me in designing my own that I now offer to you.

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Carve-Right Material

Custom blended pre-mix cement I developed for sculpting the most creative projects in the world.
Richard consulting at a construction worksite wearing a tool belt and holding a tool in his hand. Other people stand in the foreground listening to his direction

Consulting

Every project has a moment where the standard answers stop working. Materials behaving unexpectedly, a geological reference that does not translate the way you planned, a client who needs to see the solution before they can approve it. That is exactly when a second set of eyes from someone who has seen every version of that problem is worth the call.

Available worldwide for both virtual and in-person consulting. Whatever the project, whatever the stage, reach out and we will figure out what you need.

Richard L. Winget
rlw@carve-right.com
+1 (714) 318-3994

Richard L. Winget crouching in tall dry grass outdoors, looking through a large telephoto camera lens, with rocky outcroppings and shrubs visible in the background

Meet Your Instructor

Richard L. Winget

I have spent decades chasing what nature does naturally and figuring out how to recreate it by hand. The chaos of it is what keeps me hooked. No two rocks are the same. No two trees grow the same way. That unpredictability is exactly what makes this craft so satisfying to learn and so hard to fake badly.

Whether you are building something in your backyard for the first time or you have been doing this professionally for years, I think you will find something useful here. The techniques are the same at every scale. The eye you develop is what changes over time, and that is what I am here to help with.

Testimonials

Here are some of the nice things people have said about my videos and products.

"If you want to make rapid progress in the craft... alternatively you could stumble about using trial and error for the next 5 years."

Peter Taw (Taw Construction, Kaiapoi, New Zealand)

"It has removed much of the learning curve and has allowed us as beginner artisans to avoid many of the beginner mistakes."

Christian Maucieri (Concrete Evolution Inc., Calgary, AB)

"It has shortened the learning curve by 10-15 years."

John Soychak (Thunder Bay, Ontario)