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Just completed my country scene carving for my brother to have in his new home. Was a massive undertaking considering I had not flat chisel to define the edges of the frame but I ended up just going with the sunburst look using a #7 gouge. Let me know if you have any suggestions for the future, I love this style of carving and am now working on a gorilla in the jungle version for my son. It’s my first original design so not watching a video for a carving is difficult, but trying to layer it the same way and use the same concepts for this one.

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That's great!   I truly like the country scene.  I know your son will enjoy the gorilla one too.

Hi Sienna,

The country scene turned out great! Congratulations! And I love your new design. Sometimes I refer to this type of carving as "carve by numbers" because it really helps to number the layers so you know what to carve the lowest, then the next, and the next, etc. Take your time with it, and depending on whether you drew the design directly on the wood or on paper and transferred it, you may want to take a photo of the design (or a photocopy) so you have something to refer to after a lot of the lines have been carved away.

 

 

Thank you! And I used transfer paper and have the original taped up next to my workbench, now just figuring out which order to number them is my current conundrum, so I am going extra slow as to not carve away too much and get myself in a tight corner, literally haha

Does this seem like a good number order to work with? ?

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The number order looks good to me. One consideration for the future. I think I would have run the wood grain vertically. This would have avoided most of the short grain in the more delicate areas (tips of leaves, grass, facial features etc.) Probably not a big issue with this carving. Looks like a fun carving. I look forward to seeing your progress.

Tim

Those numbers look good. The difficulty is that the more layers, the more likely it would be to get too deep. So be careful or it will become fully 3-dimensional!

Easily ,  and watch out cleaning out tight corners with small chisels,,,,  I tend to "DIG HOLES"  then have to lower background even more.  lol.

  1. Vienna that is gorgeous. I have a pattern for a cabin in the woods that I've been meaning to get around to. Again that is a beautiful country carving.

Nice work Sienna, the country scene looks great, and you have moved lots of wood to finish it!

It is a little worrying to try an original design, because you don´t know if your idea will work, but very satisfying when it does.

I just finished my first coastal landscape scene, which turned out ok, eventually.

The gorilla scene will be an interesting challenge, and I wonder if it might be best to start with the face, because that could be the most difficult part, and might need some reworking to get it right. This would avoid needing to adjust the surrounding areas, after reworking the face.

I don´t know if this approach would help, but I am going to try it on my next project - an Australian Southern Boobook owl.  I expect my first attempt at the eyes will be difficult.

Happy Carving,   Rob

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