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This is an important idea: Design your carving to fit the tools you have. Right from the start, I needed to allow for the few carving tools we've been using, but that doesn't mean there is only one possible design. When you have completed it, perhaps you can think of variations?
This flower project uses all the techniques we've been learning. We've arrived here step by step and if you've been following the course there will be nothing unfamiliar. And in the future you'll be using all these familiar skills again and again in all sorts of projects.
| 09 December 2021 09:54
Edgar - Yes, it can be a bit of a problem getting decent carving wood and when you do find some, you want to by extra for the future. I'm not sure what you mean by 'base wood' but I put 'Limewood suppliers UK' into a search engine, and found some suppliers. So sources ARE out there, somewhere...
Regarding smaller scale drawings: It's a good point and I'd love to give the working drawings on this site in a variety of sizes - but what? Some of the projects on this site are very big and I have to crimp the working drawing into an A4 PDF. I find the best and quickest way to play around with scale is to use the scanner facility on my printer, enlarging and reducing drawings to the dimensions as needed need. If you don't have that facility then it's asking a friend who does I'm afraid.
Just a thought: Although this is a project that ends with a finished carving, really it's all about techniques, learning what tools do and how to handle them. So you could just pull out the various 'exercises' and practise them, forgetting the final composite result, and then go on to one of the other simpler projects like the 3 Leaves or the Feather which use smaller pieces of wood?
| 08 December 2021 14:22
the problem seems that the size of wood for this project is not available in the UK. All base wood stock-merchants have for the past month - if not more, do not had this size - the A4 size (or near this size). A smaller scale, or alternatives would be helpful
