Carving Flat-Plane Style Caricatures: Step-by-Step Instructions & Patterns for 50 Projects

Description

Join internationally recognized woodcarver Harley Refsal as he shows how to carve charming caricatures in the traditional flat-plane style. Once you try it you ll be hooked by this distinctive style of figure carving, in which large flat areas called planes are deliberately left intact. There s no smoothing, rounding, sculpting, or sanding here. Each simple finished piece merely implies detail and says more by carving less. Discover how to carve and paint both a humorous folksy character and a colorful toy horse, with step-by-step photos and detailed instructions. Carving Flat-Plane Style Caricatures presents more than 50 imaginative figure patterns for you to carve from lumberjacks and golfers to trolls and elves. Front and side-view patterns show you how to achieve success with just one knife and a few simple, well-placed cuts. You ll be delighted with the way these figures come to life with an engaging, folk-art personality.

Harley Refsal is the author of Carving Flat-Plane Style Caricatures, Whittling Little Folk and Art & Technique of Scandinavian-Style Woodcarving. A regular contributor to Woodcarving Illustrated magazine, Harley has taught thousands of carvers his style of flat-plane carving, which has become known as the 'Refsal style'.