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CONTENTS:
Introduction
Holding: Screws and Benches
   The Carving Process
'Hands' by Dürer
   Drawing
Green Man I
   Modelling
Green man II
   Joining Wood
Padmasambhava
   Clean Cutting
Ikarus
   Smooth Surfaces
Shirt
   Clean Work
Leaping Frog
   Mistakes & Repairs
Returning
   Sources of Inspiration
Old Woman's head
   Students' Problems
Butterflies
Gino Masero
Tilman Riemenschneider
 
Cover: Elements of Woodcarving

 The three 'elements' into which all questions and considerations about woodcarving fall are: Design, Material and Technique.
 Through an increased awareness of these themes, I have found that students gain a key to analysing and championing their own work and progress. They begin to carve more competently, with more confidence, even more 'professionally.
 The Elements of Woodcarving started life as various articles in magazines - however this is not at all simply a re-issue. They are re-written, with new substance, in this entirely different and fresh context.
Chris Pye

 book illustration
This carved moth - a project from this book - needs a fine balance between all the elements of woodcarving.
 
While you're waiting to get a copy, try these...

Can you think of 5 advantages and 2 disadvantages of carving a relief on a vertical work surface?
What's a 'dutchman'? (Clue: we are talking woodcarving here.)
Kaiki, Unkei and Tankei. Who are they?

The answer to these questions,and many more, will be in this book!

 

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