Carving Faces Workbook: Learn to Carve Facial Expressions with the Legendary Harold Enlow (Fox Chapel Publishing) Detailed Lips, Eyes, Noses, and Hair to Add Expressive Life to Your Woodcarvings - Softcover

Enlow, Harold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565235851 ISBN 13: 9781565235854

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Pull up a seat next to Harold's carving bench as he teaches you how to carve faces with life and expression while sharing decades of carving tips and techniques! Learn from Harold Enlow, one of America's foremost caricature carvers:

• How to carve faces such as Cowboy, Santa, Wood Spirit, Witch, Ugly Faces, & more
• How to render highly-detailed features like eyes, lips, nose, hair, & ears
• How to add life and expression to your carvings
• Clear, easy-to-follow instructions
• Detailed patterns
• Masterful tips & techniques gathered over decades of carving
• Each project is done in small steps that guarantee success

Follow along as the legendary Harold Enlow, a founding member of the Caricature Carvers of America, teaches you how to carve faces with life and expression.

Enlow shares his masterful woodcarving tips and techniques that make his carvings stand out in this information-packed book. You'll learn to carve a female face, a cowboy face, a Native American face, a Santa face, and more. Best of all, you'll discover Enlow's secret to success: Learning how to render highly detailed eyes, lips, nose, hair, and ears before moving on to carving a complete face.

Inside this workbook, you'll find clear, easy-to-follow instructions and detailed patterns for carving a variety of faces. Each project is done in small steps that guarantee success.

For anyone who wants to learn to carve faces that stand out in a crowd, this is a must-have addition to your woodcarving library!

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Follow Along and Learn to Carve Faces with Life and Expression

As a founding member of the Caricature Carvers of America, the legendary Harold Enlow has taught thousands of people how to carve in his sold-out classes. Now, he shares his easy-to-follow instruction and masterful carving techniques in Carving Faces Workbook.

Inside this workbook, you'll find clear instructions and detailed patterns for carving a variety of faces. Best of all, you'll discover Enlow's secret to success is learning how to render highly detailed eyes, lips, nose, hair, and ears before moving on to carving a complete face. Each project is done in small steps that guarantee success. For anyone who wants to learn to carve faces that stand out in a crowd, this is a must-have addition to your woodcarving library.

Some of the faces you'll learn to carve include:

• Female
• Cowboy
• Native American Chief
• Santa
• Wood Spirit
• Witch
• Ugly

Don't Miss the Harold Enlow Carving Faces Study Sticks! To supplement the expert guidance and step-by-step photographs, Harold Enlow has also created companion study sticks for each of the faces and expressions covered in the Carving Faces Workbook. These helpful study sticks, offered in kits that also contain a booklet of instructions culled from this book, are ideal for guiding you through each and every cut.

About the Author:

Harold Enlow has written twelve wood carving books and teaches 30-35 woodcarving seminars each year. He is a founding member of Caricature Carvers of America and a member of the National Wood Carvers' Association, the Ozark Whittlers and Wood Carvers, and several other carving groups around the country.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1565235851
• ISBN 13: 9781565235854
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144