This is the second comprehensive wood carving manual by the successful team of Roz Daisey and Pat Kurman. Through a detailed yet concise series of carving and painting instructions, beautifully drawn illustrations and careful photography, novice as well as expert carvers are given all the information they need to complete realistic wood carvings of five different songbirds. The instructions for creating wooden replicas of the male and female Northern Cardinal, House Sparrow, Blue Jay, and American Robin provide five home seminars at your fingertips. Roz and Pat are experienced carvers and teachers who have developed systems that work for everybody every time. Their own carving achievements, abilities to illustrate and communicate, and their devotion to the bird carving art forms they create all combine here to inspire a new generation of wildfowl artist.
This one-stop information center contains all the carving and painting how-tos for making realistic songbirds, plus everything from texturing feathers to building legs and feet to planning dramatic poses.
Create heirloom decorative songbird ornaments that will pass down through future generations. This book brings challenges for novices and joy for experienced carvers.
Rosayln moves to game birds with this volume, offering instructions for five carving projects: the male mourning dove in flight, a perched female dove, a female woodcock, her chicks, and the challenging bobwhite quail.
Step-by-step in beautifully detailed photos, the reader is led through the carving of four shorebird projects, including the Greater Yellowlegs, the Semi-Palmated Plover, the Dunlin, and the Sanderling in flight.
Combining carefully detailed instructions with full-size templates featuring front, side and overhead views of each specie, this unique book will guide readers step by step through the art of carving, finishing, and painting their own ...
Carving the chicks of five birds: the Carolina Chickadee, the Eastern Bluebird, the Bobwhite Quail, the Killdeer, and the Wood Duckling.
This is a must-have book for every bird lover, carver, and anyone who appreciates fine sculptural art.
Describes the equipment, tools, and techniques used in the carving process, and offers step-by-step instructions for detailed projects.
- Sharp, full-color photos clarify each step of the carving and painting process - Carving tips from an award-winning artist - Full-size, ready-to-use patterns with an extensive resource list for carvers In this sixth book of the Carving ...
Fan-carving is an entry level project to woodcarving. Within three hours a novice can create a very respectable bird. The story about fan-carving is as interesting as making a bird.