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Instructions for carving and painting a variety of appealing wooden angel figures with ease and humor. With many color and black-and-white illustrations of the creative steps, the book presents numerous different angle designs as weathervanes,...

This book is the perfect starting point for wood-carvers 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,...

For caricature carvers the greatest challenges and the greatest rewards come from carving the head and face. This is where the personality of the figure resides. The exaggerated nose, the enlarged ears, the toothy or...

90 of the best dog carvings from expert carver Tom Wolfe are offered here for the first time in print. Dogs are a favorite subject of carvers everywhere. Sometimes they are shown as companions of...

The patterns of the Southwest have delighted tourists and art lovers for hundreds of years. In this new book by Pam Gresham they are incorporated into the art of chip carving, a marriage that works...

A complete guide to turning your own pens, letter openers, and more on the lathe. Master the art of woodturning in this all-encompassing guide, where expert instructor Mike Cripps demystifies the techniques needed to make...

Step-by-step instructions show how to carve a realistic horse figure from wood. Master wood-carver Tom Wolfe brings his teaching and carving skills to provide step-by-step instruction for carving realistic horses, taking carvers through the steps...

Among the most popular of Tom Wolfe’s carving books is Tom Wolfe Carves Dragons. From the day it came off the presses Tom has received letters asking for a Wizard book to go with it....

The most ambitious carving Tom has ever presented in a book, this may also be the most charming. Tom leads the carver step-by-step through the process of constructing and carving a “kid’s size” rocking horse....

The nationally known artist, Beebe Hopper, shows the reader an easy way to paint realistic feathers on carvings of shore birds. Following the instructions, drawings and color photographs in this latest of Beebe Hopper's instructional...

Every scroll saw user will benefit from this book by America’s foremost authority. Frank Pozsgai begins at the beginning with the mechanics of the scroll saw itself, and continues with the basic skills every scroll...

This wood-carving guide's easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions help novice carvers learn to create art from a block of wood. In this informative book, master carver Tom Wolfe goes back to basics. Through step-by-step instructions, Wolfe helps...