If you'd like to master the art of carving in relief, this comprehensive guidebook will teach you all you need to know. Acclaimed carver and instructor Lora S. Irish takes you through every element of the relief carving process and shows you the easy way to learn. Clear, in-depth instructions and dozens of how-to photographs accompany 11 original new projects for carving exquisite animals, landscapes, flowers, borders, Celtic knots and more.
With 36 tried-and-true relief woodcarving projects and patterns from the archives of "Woodcarving Illustrated," plus expert advice from favorite authors, readers can create an assortment of compelling carvings for the home and beyond.
What tools to buy? What projects to begin with? Thanks to author and internationally acclaimed woodcarver Chris Pye, this guide is filled with everything a beginning woodcarver needs to know.
Georg Keilhofer shares traditional German carving techniques with students in his studio, and now in this book. Here are the basic skills of relief carving.
Learn how to look at a carving and know how to do it intuitively. With 192 images, step-by-step, illustrated exercises are given throughout the book.
Book of projects designed to give beginners the experience of work in a wide number of carving styles.
"Chip Carving Workshop takes you through the essential chip carving techniques, from tool sharpening and preparation to hand positions, chip cutting, and finishing"--Page 4 of cover.
In this step-by-step guide, expert woodcarver Chris Pye guides the reader through two in-depth woodcarving projects that teach a wide range of skills and techniques.
A step-by-step guide to choosing woods and buying chisels to laminating boards and stamping backgrounds.
Learn to express your faith in wood with over 20 relief carving projects inspired by Scripture.
WOOD CARVING was published in 1896 "...to fill a long-felt want for a graduated course of exercises, these being suggested by a long and varied professional and teaching experience... by Joseph Phillips, Medallist and Instructor of Wood ...