This book is the perfect start for anyone interested in learning how to carve detailed faces. Mary Finn uses her practice stick method to show you how to carve each feature - eyes, nose, closed mouth, open mouth - with step by step directions that even beginners will find easy to follow. Then she shows you how to arrange all of these pieces into one wooden egg to make a convincing head! This method has helped hundreds of Marys students, and is a sure-fire way to get started! Egg head projects included in this book are an old man, a pirate, and the Mad Hatter. Mary shows you how to adapt her carving techniques to flatter surfaces to make jewelry (like a bolo tie project) and how to paint your pieces for maximum impact. This book is terrific for beginners, and a great way for more advanced carvers to enlarge their skills.
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Don't buy it for the eggs, buy it for the sticks,
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Several people had mentioned this book in the Woodcarving Illustrated message boards under the subject of study sticks.They were absolutely correct. The sequence of carving study sticks for particular facial features is by far the most valuable feature of this book. Beginning or intermediate carvers will find the process of carving the study sticks a fabulous way to practice facial features. I'm working on a second iteration of the "eyes" stick, and I already have a much better appreciation and understanding of eye structure in a carving. ** Okay, if you are interested in carving heads from basswood eggs, that part is very detailed as well.
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A dozen eggs,
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Terrific book. Very nice to have instructions on the processes of carving eyes, noses and mouths.
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