Projects for Creative Woodcarving

Suggests fifty carving projects, including birds, horses, wildlife, nudes, craftsmen at work, musicians, and storybook characters, and includes advice on making bowls, jewelry, chess sets, and pipes

NORBURY, Ian

Arts & Photography

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Sculpture

Introduces the materials and equipment used in wood carving, and offers detailed instructions on how to carve portraits, horses, toads, bulls, still lifes, and fictional characters

Techniques of Creative Wood Carving

Scribner

17 carefully chosen projects introduce all the techniques needed to begin wood carving and most can be finished in a weekend. Projects include walking stick heads, coat hangers, mirrors, candleholders and door knockers

Woodcarving, Book 1: Basic Techniques (Bk. 1)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Stobart Davies Limited

RELIEF WOODCARVING AND LETTERING is Ian Norbury's third book and every bit as exciting and stimulating as its predecessors. For woodcarvers who know Ian's work, here will be found all the vitality and fire of his undisputed talent - "works of art" created from an instinctive freedom and love of his subject. For beginners to relief carving there are stage by stage development pieces progressing to the real artform of this difficult but most rewarding craft. And for the more experienced, teaching pointers to guide the carver towards his own artistic potential. The book is packed full of illustrations - both line drawings and photographs - in nearly all cases the work of the author, and with examples of lettering used in both working examples and as carvable alphabets. Essential reading for all woodcarvers from this master of the art.

Relief Woodcarving and Lettering

Linden Pub

Techniques for carving detailed anatomical structures of the human form.

Fundamentals of Figure Carving

Linden Publishing

Twelve pieces, graded to ensure improvement of the necessary skills to produce superb wood carvings.

Techniques of Creative Woodcarving

Projects included are aimed at a variety of skill levels with examples to suit all abilities and most tastes. Book contains over 50 projects, each illustrated by sketches of the original concept, measured outline drawings, photographs, close-ups, and pictures of the finished carvings. Author is a full-time professional wood sculptor, acknowledged as Britain's foremost carver

Carving Facial Expressions

Includes detailed step-by-step examples of carvings from the bandsawn block for both the beginning and experienced carver.

Using projects to demonstrate the various aspects and different styles of carving to the newcomer, this step-by-step guide shows how to approach the craft without the assistance of large machinery. Each project is specifically chosen to introduce new techniques. Projects are small, useful, fun to carve, and can be completed in a few days or over a weekend. Major techniques such as carving in the round, relief carving, knife work, and working with burrs and rasps are covered. The projects presented help beginning woodworkers to learn particular carving techniques that they can then employ on more complex projects.

Woodcarving: Book 1: Basic Techniques

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Projects for Creative Woodcarving

Projects for Creative Woodcarving

Techniques of Creative Wood Carving

Woodcarving, Book 1: Basic Techniques (Bk. 1)

Relief Woodcarving and Lettering

Fundamentals of Figure Carving

Techniques of Creative Woodcarving

Projects for Creative Woodcarving

Carving Facial Expressions

Woodcarving: Book 1: Basic Techniques