Welcome to my FREE video series: Tips & Tricks!

Not all tips are tricks, and not all tricks are tips, and knowing the difference matters. In these short free videos, I share some of the quickest and most valuable insights from my career, so you can work smarter without having to learn everything the hard way.

A pair of worn needle-nose pliers holding a thin wire on a weathered wooden surface, with several small rocks or pebbles in the background

Tips & Tricks #02

Tarps and Shade
A worker in a black cap and gloves using bolt cutters on a rebar armature frame outdoors against a concrete structure

Tips & Tricks #04

Rebar Benders
A man in sunglasses and a cap holding a caulk gun loaded with a purple epoxy or adhesive cartridge at an outdoor rock construction site

Tips & Tricks #05

Tool Retrieval
A hand arranging various textured plaster or concrete mold samples in a shallow tray, including patterns resembling coral, honeycomb, and lizard skin

Tips & Tricks #06

Makeshift Stamps
A hand using a screwdriver to adjust a metal wire reel spool on a

Tips & Tricks #08

Custom Pliers
A person's hands holding a compact black wire reel spool with a strand of wire being pulled from it

Tips & Tricks #09

Tie Wire Reel
Close-up of a pair of pliers gripping a thin wire against a metal surface, with a wire reel visible below

Tips & Tricks #10

Tie Wire Tricks
Close-up of two cut rebar ends protruding from a curved, rusty steel armature structure against a light background

Tips & Tricks #12

Cutting Rebar at height
Richard L. Winget in a safety vest and cap holding a plasterer's hawk with a mound of wet concrete mix, standing beside a large sculpted rock form under a plastic enclosure

Tips & Tricks #13

Hawk and Trowel

Video-On-Demand and DVDs

From backyard water features to full-scale themed environments, the techniques are all here. DVDs, on-demand videos, and resources covering every stage of the process from planning and sculpting to texture and color. Come see what's in the store, including the newest video on sculpting and painting.

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.

"The detail on carving and coloring is the best I have seen."

Bobby Leatherwood (Picassa Crete, Canyon Lake, TX)

"His connections and knowledge of the business are priceless."

Nathan Giffin (Vertical Artisans, Hickory Hills, IL)

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

John Soychak (Thunder Bay, Ontario)