[carver 27]

Hi everyone
I am carving a Buck in relief I have it rouged out
looking for tips
thanks
david

[Kenny_S]

Best way I know is Gut ir first and make sure the insides are washed throughly. Hang it up to cool down, Next day use your best sharp skinning knife and skin it out, then quarter it and wrap in freezer paper. Let it almost freeze as it lends to better carving. Take the almost frozen quartered abd start carving up for steaks or Deer burger. I like the backstraps or Loins to butterfly.

Oppppppppps wrong type of "Buck Carving", Sorry!!I'll go back in to my little world. They know me best there. Didn't say they liked me but know me. LOL!!!!!

[achaundy]

Dave: post a picture of where you are at with it, I'm sure someone can give you some good tips after seeing your progress. Skip

[carver 27]

Here are some pictures of my buck carving
can you give me some tips on depth in relief?

Dave

[Mottles]

Hi Dave, looks like you have a good start on your 'Buck' relief carving. I always start my relief carvings from the background and work forward. The background will be your deepest, then as you come forward would be the mid-ground and then the foreground. I notice what appears to be tree limbs, which would be your next depth and then your buck.
I think you could probably go a little deeper with your back ground, then work on carving out the limbs. I always save my subject for the last until I get the feeling of depth I'm looking for. This is an example of what I'm talking about--the board itself is a little less than 1" and the background was taken down to 1/4". I used a pattern by Susan Irish www.carvingpatterns.com--she also contributes to this site. Hope this helps, always happy to answer questions too. Here is a link to my WIP on my Antelope Antelope Relief WIP
Kathy

[Mottles]

Hi Dave, another thought for you. There are many fine carving clubs in the USA maybe there is one near you. Here is a link to the Club Search on this site Wood Carving Illustrated - How To Magazine for Carvers , try here too the Relief & Chip Carving Forum Relief and Chip Carving - Woodcarving Illustrated Message Board Also another thought would be to check your local newspaper events or do an Online search using your town/city/state name and the word carving club.
Wood carvers are a great group of folks just full of knowledge and experience. Our club the Prescott Wood Bee Carvers in Prescott, Arizona are Mentors for several young people. We are a wonderful mix of ages and carving types. Hope this helps, and Holidays.
Kathy
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[Robert Cahill]

I have a book Wildlife Carving in Relief by Lora S. Irish and it has great instructions for depth and shadows. You might be able to get it at your local library.

[carver 27]

thanks Robert I Requested from another library
Mom is picking it up right now.
I haven,t posted for a while because
Ihave been working on our shop/garage
we are going to insulate it soon
Then I'll have a place to carve
David

[DADDIO]

this is the first relief i did kind of the same i should have added some trees in the background on the left hand side or something to pull intrest there so there wasn't so much empty space