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All you need to get started carving is a piece of wood, a small pocketknife and some quiet time to work. What you make is up to you. You might whittle small figures at the kitchen table, try your had at intricate ribbon moldings or even carve your own coat of arms.
How to carve and finish three woodland animals -- a rambunctious chipmunk, a playful river otter, and a crafty red fox.
Fourteen projects designed to help carvers develop skills in whittling, chip carving, wildlife carving, and relief carving. Based on the popular public television show.
Demonstrates the techniques used in whittling, chip carving, wildlife carving, and relief carving, and suggests fourteen projects
Two tomes for almost every woodworking collection take solid approaches to their subjects. By executing the 15 projects the Bridgewaters propose, you can create 'instant antiques' that some finishing expertise could make indistinguishable from 'real' antiques. Most of the 15 require very few materials and could be done by the average weekend warrior in an afternoon. A couple, however, do require patience and skill and ought to be thoroughly checked out to avoid getting in over one's head. The book's discrete section of color photographs is welcome, although a single photo of each finished project in the chapter about it would have been more convenient. The Butzes' book might appeal more broa...
This work provides step-by-step instructions for carving four Christmas figures: Alpine St. Nicholas; Adirondack Santa; Adirondack Santa's bear, and Swiss St. Nicklaus.
Brian Grazer knows the one thing that can instantly connect you with anyone: Curiosity. A Curious mind offers a brilliantly entertaining and inspiring account of how his courage and enthusiasm for talking with complete strangers have been the secret of his success as a leading Hollywood producer.
A complete guide to creating realistic portraits in wood from a champion carver. Learn the techniques for carving hair, skin, muscle and more. Following a step-by-step project with more than 350 color photos and 50 drawings that provide useful anatomical references, you'll be guided to completely sculpt the piercing features of a Native American warrior wearing a wolf headdress.
"From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power"--
Experts from a range of disciplines assess the foundations and implications of a novel action-oriented view of cognition. Cognitive science is experiencing a pragmatic turn away from the traditional representation-centered framework toward a view that focuses on understanding cognition as “enactive.” This enactive view holds that cognition does not produce models of the world but rather subserves action as it is grounded in sensorimotor skills. In this volume, experts from cognitive science, neuroscience, psychology, robotics, and philosophy of mind assess the foundations and implications of a novel action-oriented view of cognition. Their contributions and supporting experimental eviden...