Carving Deer

Join award-winning woodcarver Desiree Hajny as she reveals her artistic approach to carving majestic white-tailed deer. Desiree is well known for her lifelike, richly detailed animal carvings. Now she shares her knowledge and carving secrets with you in this handy reference guide. Celebrate the natural beauty of wild deer as you create your own magnificent woodcarvings. Inside you’ll find ready-to-use carving patterns for making beautifully realistic bucks, does, and fawns. Clear reference photos provide inspiring views of deer from all angles, and color-coded anatomy sketches help you to understand how they move. The author offers expert tips for carving challenging details like eyes, nose, and mouth, along with texturing, painting, and finishing techniques.

This handy reference guide to carving deer features detailed patterns, multiple-angle reference photos, color-coded anatomy sketches, and expert tips for texturing, painting, and finishing.

Attempting to capture the essence of these majestic creatures, this how-to book offers tips and techniques for carving trophy deer and elk busts in wood. The book features step-by-step photos detailing the roughing out of the bust, reveals how to use power tools to create realistic looking hair, and explains what painting techniques work best on these beautiful miniature trophies. An appendix also includes anatomy sketches, hair tracts illustration, and painting charts for the whitetail deer, the mule deer, and the bull elk.

Every power tool and technique necessary for capturing animals in wood, with concise instructions and never-before demonstrated techniques and carving sequences for transforming a block of wood into a life-like animal. With 150 full-color photographs, every step is illustrated. Twelve project plans are provided: a bear, bobcat, bison, elephant, fox, giraffe, horse, rabbit, squirrel, tiger, whitetail deer and wolf.

A comprehensive guide on carving animal skulls that will give you the confidence to get started and not screw up! Includes over 240 photos and case studies for different skull and bone carving methods. Skull Carving: A Complete Guide to Tools and Techniques for Carving Animal Skulls is the perfect resource for getting started carving animal skulls and improving your skills as you progress. Hunter lays out information in a basic and easy way to understand as well as diving deep into bone carving to better help the reader feel prepared to start carving! From tools to techniques, to skulls and staining, you will get practical guidance on creating amazing unique works of art. Are you ready to become a skull carver?!

Newly rewritten chapter on the future of antlers. Collecting, scoring, and carving antlers. A complete and multi-faceted guide for Whitetail, mule deer, elk, and moose antlers.

A treasury of 135 classic gunstock carving patterns from talented artist, Lora Irish. You're sure to find the best carving pattern here for your next project, from basic checkering to dramatic hunting-related scenes. Excellent choices are provided for every skill level, from beginner to expert, so you can start with a basic pattern and tackle more intricate designs as your experience in gunstock carving grows. Also included is advice on choosing patterns, wood, and tools, carving methods, and tips on whether to start from scratch or use a kit.

A treasury of classic wood patterns and techniques for creative woodworking embellishment. Woodcarving artist Lora Irish gives carvers, woodburners and painters a wide variety of designs they can transfer directly to projects or use to develop ideas of their own. Themes include natural patterns such as grapes, oak leaves and acorns, animals like lions and eagles, and intricate floral and fantasy designs. 180 drawings.

Relief carving is a challenging technique that lies somewhere between two-dimensional and three-dimensional artwork. Color photographs of the author’s finished carvings of wildlife subjects demonstrate the stunning capabilities of this technique. Step-by-step instructions on how to carve a bison bust, line art and shaded contour illustrations for 30 other animal images, and descriptions of the special techniques needed to render fur, antlers, and animal faces are also included.

Rosayln moves to game birds with this volume, offering instructions for five carving projects: the male mourning dove in flight, a perched female dove, a female woodcock, her chicks, and the challenging bobwhite quail. Complete instructions with generous and beautiful illustrations take the reader through all five projects step-by-step, from carving through texturing and painting.