Scroll Saw Portraits: How to Turn Photographs Into Wooden Keepsakes
- ISBN-10
- 1565232518
- ISBN-13
- 9781565232518
- Category
- Crafts & Hobbies
- Pages
- 112
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fox Chapel Publishing Company Incorporated
- Author
- Gary Browning
Description
How to turn a photograph of a loved one, pet, or movie star into a strikingly accurate portrait in wood is detailed in this woodcutting workbook. Guiding readers through converting an image via computer into a woodcutting pattern, this book provides strategies for creating a wood portrait that maintains the essential attributes of the original subject. Tips are provided for investing in computer software, finishing and framing a portrait, and cutting a piece without weakening the wood. This second edition charts current advances in software and provides fascinating patterns of many famous faces for readers who do not wish to design their own.
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- 2001
- 96 pages
- Paperback
- Fox Chapel Publishing Company Incorporated
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