Carving Faces Workbook


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· Learn how to carve realistic faces in wood from America’s leading caricature carver, Harold Enlow · Provides expert woodcarving tips and techniques for carving a female face, a cowboy face, a Santa face, and more · Also includes expert instruction on how to achieve detailed eyes, lips, noses, hair, and ears · Offers step-by-step instructions with coordinating photography throughout for complete guidance




How to Carve Faces in Driftwood


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Presents step-by-step instructions for carving facial features in driftwood.




Carving Realistic Faces with Power


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Finally, a book for power carvers by a power carver! Learn to carve realistic facial features with confidence and ease. Concisely illustrated, step-by-step directions for carving the human head. Disciplines and guidelines pertaining to facial layout and proportion are coupled power carving techniques. Ten projects and plans.




Carving the Human Face


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A complete guide to creating realistic portraits in wood from a champion carver. Learn the techniques for carving hair, skin, muscle and more. Following a step-by-step project with more than 350 color photos and 50 drawings that provide useful anatomical references, you'll be guided to completely sculpt the piercing features of a Native American warrior wearing a wolf headdress.




Carving Facial Expressions


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Master carver, Ian Norbury, provides a detailed guide for all craftsmen to discover the art of creating facial expressions in woodcarving.




Carving the Little Guys


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· A skill-building practice exercise perfect for beginning woodcarvers to learn how to caricature carve small figures · Provides step-by-step instructions and helpful color photographs · Features exert tips and techniques that are essential for beginning carvers · Includes guidance on adding faces, ears, hats, hands and feet Finishing & painting your Little Guy Basics of wood, knives, honing, and safety




The Complete Book of Woodcarving


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Whether you're a woodcarver expanding your talents, a seasoned carver refining your skills, or a beginner newly introduced to this fulfilling craft, this is the only carving book you need. Brimming with expert instruction and 8 attractive step-by-step woodcarving projects, you'll learn all the classic carving styles and techniques along with the fundamentals of wood and tool selection, sharpening, creating a workspace, and finishing your completed work. Also included is a complete chapter on power carving.




Carving Caricature Figures from Scratch


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Pete LeClair shares his insights into carving whole figure caricatures from scratch. Heavily illustrated in color, the book starts with a simple block of bass wood, and goes all the way through carving and painting of a figure. Each step is illustrated and a helpful caption helps the reader carry out the project. A gallery of figures in the back shows the endless possibilities of using Petes technique.




Grinling Gibbons and the Art of Carving


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Published to coincide with the first ever exhibition of the work of Grinling Gibbons, this study looks at Gibbons' work from the perspective of a fellow wood carver.




Sculpting the Female Face and Figure in Wood


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The female face and the female figure have been drawn, sculpted, carved, and painted by artists and craftsman from around the world for centuries. In this book, author and teacher Norbury offers his expertise to help carvers with presenting the female face and figure in wood.