Category: Wood Carving
Learning to carve with Study Sticks
Master facial proportions and balance, from realistic faces to exaggerated expression caricatures, with study sticks as your reference. Here are 9 tips for carving faces from Expert Carver Harold Enlow.
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Top 10 relief carving tips
To get started relief carving, you will discover a simple set of carving tools, a few sharpening stones, a stack of carving blanks, and these tips from our experts is all you need to create stunning relief work!
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10 Wood Carving Projects to Whittle in Winter
Fire up that workshop heater to learn a new craft, work on our wood carving skills, or create a project that makes us think of spring days.
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Whittling Wood Like a Pro
For a complete beginner or an expert looking for an insider tip, we broke down the basics for you with these 10 whittling tips and tricks below.
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Author Spotlight: Chip Carving Expert Wayne Barton
Meet the author and wood carver Wayne Barton, the leading icon in wood chip carving and the talent behind The Joy of Chip Carving.
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10 Wood Carving Gift Ideas
Around here we take handmade gift-giving seriously! We’ve put together a round-up of Christmas past and present and the very best gift ideas from Woodcarving Illustrated Magazine.
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Whittling Projects: How to Carve Hair
Carve tiny caricatures with expert small carver, Jack Price! Sample his new book, Carving Small Characters in Wood with this tutorial on how he carves hair.
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Undercover Santas: Wood Carving Designs
How does Santa know if children have been good throughout the year? Award-winning woodcarver Russell Scott has a theory. Santa goes undercover! Preview 6 Santa wood carving designs from Russell Scott’s Carving Undercover Santas.
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Free Wood Carving Design: Fall Birdhouse Pattern
In celebration of the new Woodcarving Illustrated Fall 2019 issue release and our new Lora Irish Patterns, we’re sharing a free pattern that will get you in the mood for carving on a cool Fall evening! This Fall birdhouse pattern by Lora Irish will inspire relief carvers, pyrographers, and even scroll sawers.
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Ice Cream Earrings: A Whittling Project Treat
This simple wood carving can be done in just a few hours with a dowel rod and your whittling knife.
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Incredible, Not Edible, Wood Carving Art
These woodcarvers are expressing their love of food with these realistic food sculptures! We’ve all heard the term “too pretty to eat” but what about art “too realistic you want to eat”? Here are two culinary carving masterminds that will have your stomach rumbling — but remember they’re made out of wood!
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Classic Cottonwood Bark Wood Spirit Carvings
When you’re walking in the forest, the trees seem so alive around you. That’s the inspiration for my green man in cottonwood bark.
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