Harold Enlow Study Sticks
Learn to carve facesone stick at a time.
Each Harold Enlow study stick is a hand-cast face in four stages — beginner to finished — so you can see exactly where every cut is supposed to land.
- 1Pick any three faces to practice — from single features to full caricatures.
- 2The Carving Faces Workbook comes free — 144 pages walking you through every cut. Worth $19.99.
- 3Three sticks puts you past the free shipping line before you even add the book.
Carving Faces Workbook
The book and the sticks were built for each other. Harold teaches a face one feature at a time — eyes, lips, nose, hair, ears — then puts them together into cowboys, women, Native American faces and Santas. The sticks are those same faces in three dimensions, so you can read a cut from the page and then turn it over in your hand.
This offer can't be combined with any other promotion, discount code or sale price. Free workbook while supplies last, one per order.
The study sticks
Ordered the way Harold teaches them — single features first, then whole faces. Tap any stick to see all four stages.
Who is Harold Enlow?
The godfather of caricature carving was born on a Friday the 13th in the Ozark Mountains and took an interest in the knife as a boy — but the career started half a world from home. On a U.S. Army post in Okinawa in the early 1960s he pulled a battered book by H.S. "Andy" Anderson off the base library shelf, got hooked on caricatures, and came back to Arkansas a carver.
Sixty years on, the record is hard to argue with. Twelve carving books. A founding seat at the Caricature Carvers of America, alongside the National Wood Carvers' Association and the Ozark Whittlers and Wood Carvers. Nearly four decades on the seminar circuit, thousands of students, and a standing reputation as the instructor other instructors learned from. When Woodcarving Illustrated named him Woodcarver of the Year in 2001, the plaque arrived with a framed citation from the governor of Arkansas.
Roger Schroeder, who presented that award, called him "a prime mover in getting caricature carvings recognized and accepted as a form of art in the United States." Harold — humble and self-effacing, by every account of the people who have carved beside him — would tell you he just carves humorous hill folk out of Marble Falls. He has since stepped back from the circuit to four or five local seminars a year, which makes these study sticks and his books about as close as you can now get to standing at his elbow.