Carve Beautiful Songbirds Using These Patterns
Songbirds are ideal subjects for beautiful carvings, and they're inexpensive to make with relatively small blocks of suitable wood.
This guide contains life-size patterns for 12 common songbirds which show the birds from front, top, and side. Instructions for selecting the wood, initiating the carving, burning in the feather details, and adding feet. Color photographs are also included to aid in painting.
The twelve songbirds included are:
American robin
Red-winged blackbird
Eastern bluebird
American goldfinch
Evening grosbeak
Northern cardinal
Baltimore oriole
Bluejay
Tuft titmouse
Cedar waxwing
House wren
Black-capped chickadee
Anthony Hillman is a well-known artist, craftsman, and author. In
Carving Favorite Songbirds
he covers every aspect you will need in creating beautiful, life-like models you will be proud to put on display.
Be sure to add other guides by Anthony Hillman, published by Echo Point Books, to your library:
Painting Duck Decoys, Carving Miniature Duck Decoys, Carving Water Birds, Painting Shorebird Decoys,
and
Carving Traditional Fish Decoys.