Emotions in Wood: Carving the Expressive Face

Conveying human emotions in carving can be a challenge, but this expressiveness can take your carving to another realm. This handbook provides step-by-step guidance for creating heads with a variety of moods and expressions - useful for both your impish garden gnome or contemplative religious icon.

The book offers insights that will help you understand and capture the elements of facial expression, along with tool selection and usage. Some of the information is more geared to novices, but even more experienced carvers can benefit from the specialized focus on facial expression, which will make your carvings more sophisticated and meaningful.

127 pages. 8 1/2" x 11". Softcover.

”Teaches master woodcarver Ann Brouwers' original style of capturing spherical, expressive faces in wood . . . recommended for novice and advanced wood carvers and libraries catering to crafters." --Midwest Book Review