Want-ta-be caricature carvers beware

[Irish]

... Fox Chapel has done it again ... AH! maybe I will have to just give up relief carving ....

I think you all know that I love books about carving and grap them up as fast as I can. Well, today, Caricature Carving, came in the mail. As someone that just dabbles into creating those wonderful 3-d little dudes this book has everything I could ever want to get started on another fun project.

This is another great collection of past articles from our favorite magazine, Wood Carving Illustrated. If you have just started carving and don't have stacks and stacks of back issues this book puts it all in one place. Every imaginable favorite is here from the hillbilly chess set to a football player about to go face down to a hunter holding a long necked duck ... I mean lonnnng necked!

What I like is that there are 30 projects all packed into one place by what looks like 30 different authors/carvers. For me that means I have 30 different types of facial expressions, how to do hands, physical postures and even a wide variety of painting ideas. If I don't quite get the idea from one project I can scan through all the others to find another author ready to teach me in their words. The mix and match options are endless and it's all in one place, no searching to find out where I thought I saw that article.

OK ... off to find some basswood and see if I can get to my band saw! I have wanted to try the Hillbilly chess set since it first came out.

Susan

[Irish]

OK .. I think that is my third, maybe fourth, book review in twelve years and this one was worth it.

Susanh

[therenow]

Susan? where do us po folks get dat book???

[Keoma]

gosh dangit - once again you have made me want yet another fox chapel book! man...i was gonna be good and say I have enough books...LOVE your relief carving by the way! just brilliant! Your such an inspiration! Great review!

[gtech]

https://www.foxchapelpublishing.com/...st-of-wci.aspx







I just ordered it...

Gilles

[Jack Goodman]

I have been carving for the last 35 years. mostly using local fruit ,carob , pine & olive woods.I use the natural form of the wood
and then form it to what ever I see in it.I have been sculpturing in clay &
metal for over 50years.For the last 6years I have been teaching
pentioners carving in my studio.
The WC mag. is just great||||||.How ever for a magazine that only
comes out 4 times a year , just too many Santas
Keep up the good work.
By the way I live on a settlement in ISRAEL similar to a kibbutz.

[aulddiy]

I've had to pre-order it. It will not arrive till post-May. Huh so much for internatinalism.
To be honest the postage made it too expensive , so I'm happy to wait on what I'm sure will be another good publication.

[kev.b]

John im sure i've seen this book advertised on amazon for about £12, but it does state the it hasnt been released yet.
perhaps you guys at Fox can enlighten me?

[kev.b]

just checked again amazon show a release date as MAY 2010 ?? and price is £11.20.
wossup guys??

[Woodchip]

Are there new projects in Caricature Carving, or just projects from past issues?