Just like Lay's potato chips you can't have just one!

[agaboric]

I have been reading my WCI magizine forwards, backwards, left, and right and as I been doing this a question came to my little brain. I love carving caricatures a lot I am new to the woodcarving scence since I have only been doing it for 1 1/2 years or so. Anyway, the work that Chris Pye and other as far as architectural carving is concerned just bolws me away too. I would love to do both. However it seems most people more or less speacialize in one form or another and I was wondering if there were people out there that were fluent in more than one school of carving? If so what two or ten different styles do you do and if you had to choose a favorite, which one? Or are they all your favorite since you do each one? Just thought I would throw that out there because personally I would love to try my hand at some
architectural carving sometime too!
Thanks Andy

[oldbearx2]

Hey Andy I do, realistic animals, humans and caricatures (mostly Santas). I concentrated mainly on the animals until I got to the point where I was very comfortable with carving them. I then went to the others because I could free lance more and break up the monotony of having to be so meticulus with the animals. The thing is carve what you enjoy first and then explore other types of carving. I have a friend who is an excellent caricature carver, but says he sometimes get bored with carving them. He then expanded into realistic humans, and became very good at them. I guess if I had to choose just one style of carving it would be caricatures.

[kitaye]

I am not fluent - or a master - at any one style but I have tried most at least once. I find myself doing chip carving, relief carving, and small whittling projects the most often.