eProject - Downloadable .pdf - no waiting for your book to arrive in the mail, download this afternoon and be carving tonight.

 

This is the latest Lora S. Irish eProject.  It's a beginner's level relief wood carving project.

Follow along with the highly-detailed, well-photographed, step-by-step instruction.  This project contains information about the different styles of relief carving, a quick look at the different carving tools and supplies needed, clear tips on working with your pattern, creating layers, as well as complete carving, shaping, and finishing (painting and antiquing) instruction.

This Mayan High Priest, Lord Bird Jaguar I, is worked in a low relief style of carving. The side walls of each area or element is round over with little or no shaping steps to the main body of the element. Elements within a design are any identifiable area of the pattern.

The original Mayan carving of this pattern was worked in stone with minimal changes in the depth of an element. Yet the completed work gives a strong feeling of dimension which is accented by fine, tightly packed detail work.

This design has eight hair elements - eight areas where the hair can be grouped into one large cluster of hair strands. As you explore the finished sample you can identify many of these individual elements by their changing color.

Any relief carving project goes through several stages.