[Tito Torres]

Hello : Faces are expressions, expressions are feelings, expres feelings thru wood is liberating. What you need now is sanding to "clean" the marks of chisels.How ? Use a dremel rotary tool, with a light variation to an accesorie that will make it very easy. I do faces on pine using mostly bifurcation , yokes so the face will happen on the strongest part of the wood , for this type of faces like tikis is better use hardwoood , the harder the wood , better the expressions. I did lately a chess play out of branches of a hardwood, with 16 different expressions, try it.

[Ashbys]

Tito ,
I am courious, are you saying you doing your carvings with expression based upon the mathamatical changes of the face expression ? So one contour forces another contour , in a measured way ? Then planning the face using the grain to make the grain contours to high light the face ?

Or excatlly how are you using the term bifurcation ?

I really do not know what you mean when you say you made a chess with 16 expressions. Could you show me. Or did you mean chest either way would love to see what you mean .

Thanks
Ash