Looking for a book

[AlArchie]

Just dug through my library????? (book pile is more like it) and found another one

"Woodcarving as a Hobby" by Herbert W. Faulkner. copyright 1934

It was given to my dad for Christmas 1935. I think by my aunt. not sure.

Anyway it has a lot of classic style carving, furniture trim, moldings, Renaissance carving, gothic and lettering. There is some "in the round" instructions, but oddly most of these are about machine turning and then detail refinement...interesting concepts, like turning columns with elements that are further developed into mice, dentils, and multiple animals.

Not much to do with the original question, but I remembered an old carving book by an "F"!


Al

[Paul_Guraedy]

Lot of us book collectors among the woodcarvers. After twice buying the same book twice; I decided to put mine on a computer to keep up with them. Categorized them and everything, even put in a short subject description and as an afterthought the purchase price. It surprised me when I passed the century mark on number and the big "K" mark on purchase price. Put a password on this file so a curious wife won't limit future purchases. Anyway, a few years ago, I took a Keith Mueller class. As stated, he is a wonderful artist. Then last year I happened upon a Wildfowl Carving Magazine, Workbench Projects, Miniature Snowy Owl by Keith Mueller. It's not cheap, but I highly recommend it to all carvers. The highlight of this book is Keith's painting with light and shadow in mind. Some relief carvers tend to do a little of this; but, most of us birdcarvers just paint the bird putting total attention on getting the colors right. In this project Keith even uses different shades of color for the eyes as one is in the shadow. Most of us just want to get the shadows right. Keith uses them as an integral part of the piece, equal to carving and painting . I think his carving techniques are the trigger that will be pushing woodcarvers to the next level. As he says constantly in his classes, "we need to go beyond carving a monolith on a stand."