Wildlife Projects: 28 Favorite Projects & Patterns

Best of Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts: Wildlife Portraits is jam packed full of 28 extraordinary animal projects for the scroll saw. These tried and true favorite projects are plucked from the archives of Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts, the foremost periodical on scroll sawing.

Join your favorite authors, including Kathy Wise, Gary Browning, Charles Dearing, and Lora Irish, as they scroll handsome projects from the animal kingdom. Create birds, pets, sea life, North American wildlife, and African big cats in wood.

Here's a selection of the animals you'll find inside:

• rooster
• blue jay
• cat
• rabbit
• crab
• turtle
• bear
• elk
• wolf
• tiger
• lion

Lora S. Irish is an internationally known artist and author.In addition to her work as an author, in 1997, working from her home studio, Lora and her husband, Michael, created carvingpatterns(dot)com, an Internet-based studio focusing on online tutorials, projects, and patterns created exclusively by Lora for crafters and artisans. The website offers more than 1,500 patterns in various subject categories, including Americana, Animal and Wildlife, Celtic Knots, Dragons and Beasts, Nautical and Sea Life, Spirit People, and many more. Lora continues to provide new patterns-and inspiration to many artists-at the site. Lora also contributes a regular relief carving pattern column to Woodcarving Illustrated magazine and is a frequent contributor to Scroll Saw Woodworking and Crafts magazine.