Relief Carving Wood Spirit Grape Man WIP

[BobD]

By the way....everyone...

This entire tutorial is available in book form from Fox Chapel Publishing. The book is called "Relief Carving Wood Spirits" and includes all of the how-to and several additional wood spirit patterns.

Relief Carving Wood Spirits - A Step-By-Step Guide for Releasing Faces in Wood

[Peacewood]

Hi , I have been trying to carve a femal wood spirite on a walking staff, but when I follow the steps for wood spirits in the wood spirit and greenman book I can't keep her from looking old and saggy. What steps should I change to get the result I want, "a femal face coming out of the wood and blending with the staff"?

Peacewood
(God grows it, Nature cuts it, and I carve it.)

[Irish]

Peacewood, excellentquestion and I am taking to it's own thread.

Female vs Male Wood Spirits

Susan

[kcadotte]

I'm REALLY new to carving... *blush* (I've done some chip carving, and tried my hand at some wood spirits/wizards from youtube vids.)

I have a piece of basswood with the bark still around it that I got at a local wood store and was wondering....

Can this be done without cutting the main shape out with a scroll saw? I don't have access to one at this time and was wondering if this could just be carved out of the wood I have.

This may be a super silly question, but like I said, I'm new and I'd rather not 'waste' a good piece of basswood trying something that shouldn't be tried. *blush*


Thanks.

Kim

[skip7083]

Hello,

I am new to this site and found this series of posts quite helpful. Since the photos in this post ended at 23, can someone direct me to the follow-up posts? I am having some difficulty locating it.

Thank you,
Skip

[paolo59]

Skip,
if you go back to page 15 of this thread, you can see the wood spirit finished in the post 143 with the 263th picture. Browsing through the pages you will fing all the steps and pictures.

[poorglory]

I am new on woodcarving too. And thank you very very much for this awesome tutorial.

Blessing,

Raid.