Carving simple eyes with knife

[Tom-H]

Can anybody direct me to a site that shows how to carve simple eyes with only a knife. Four or five cuts for each eye. I have seen folks do this, but was not ready to learn the technique at the time.. Thanks Tom H

[gene-messer]

Tom ... I dont know of any website ... but Jack Price's way of carving eye's with a knife is in his book and video Carving Compact Characters ..Also check out Harley Refsal Book ..Scandinavian Style Woodcarving .. It shows you how to carve eyes with a knife ... I hope I helped in some way ...

[Just Carving]

http://www.texaswoodcarvers.com/Pages/eye_stick.htm

http://www.willhayden.com/Lesson7f.html

http://www.littleshavers.com/Eyes.html

http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.co...stmasGnome.pdf

Jan Oegema carves the eyes in the gnome pattern (last link) with just a knife. The other patterns use a small v tool but with some practice you can use the knife to do the same thing.

[Tom-H]

Thank you, Gene and Bob. I do not have the books, but I'll find them. As for the web sites I had them at one time, but due to a recent computer exorcism lost them. I guess I have no more excuses for not learning to carve simple eyes...Thanks again.. Tom H

[Just Carving]

Check out page 96 of the Fall 2006 issue Wood Carving Illustrated. Jan Oegema has a quick and easy folk art eye. Calls for a knife and a #11 gouge but you probably only need the knife.

[Tom-H]

Again, thanks Bob...just tried several on Jans techniques. I need much more practice...One of the problems that I have is that I am still carving too small. I am attempting to carve eyes that are about 3/16 to 1/4 of an inch across. I have some carvings that I picked up at the Dayton show that have the small eyes carved; so I know it can be done. Will just take more practice. Thanks again Tom H

[Old Crow]

Here is a very good eye tutorial by Gene Graham which has helped me a great deal.
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/treetotreasure/eyes.html

[Eddy-Smiles]

"Just Carving" & "Old Crow"...


I just wanted to add my thanks also. I've spent many, many, hours on-line looking for nifty tutorials just like the URL's that you provided and I still didn't have two or three of those listed. You can never view enough. Someone always has a slightly different approach or presents it in a slightly different manner.... and very often it's just a subtle difference in presentation that brings about clarity of the technique.

[whitecree]

Rick Ferry has a very effective eye-carving tutorial. Easy to undersand and put in use.

If you want really simplke eyes, a chip carving technique may be worth looking into. Simply cut a triangle with one slightly rounded side (side of the eyeball) then do the same again on the other side of the eyeball. Remove the chips and you have an eyeball. Crude, but effective.

[Kenny_S]

Another way is to carve Diamonds and on the inside of the diamonds is the deepest cut so as to round out the eye. You can make the diamond as big as you want the eye. then go from there to make eyelids and brows.
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