Landscapes
in Relief
Carving Techniques
and Patterns
by Lora S Irish
Softcover
215 x 280mm
103pp
Published by Fox Chapel Publishing Co. Inc., East Petersburg PA USA
R.R.P.$29.90
ISBN 1-56523-127-9
Extract from back cover of book:
No other topic lends itself to relief carving quite as well as a landscape. Here in her first book for Fox Chapel Publishing Company, author and relief carving artist Susan Irish shows you how to create exquisite relief carved country landscape scenes.
You'll start with the basics, including an in-depth lesson on how to render various barn building materials, how to make basic relief carving cuts and how to choose a wood for your project. Then Susan takes you step-by-step through carving a country landscape.
You'll
learn:
- how to map out levels in a pattern
- how to trace pattern levels
onto the blank
- how to work roughed-out levels
- how to carve texture
for foliage and buildings
- how to create three-dimensional foreground elements
- and how to dry brush your finished carving with oil paints.
Susan rounds out the book with 32 landscape patterns for you to carve as is or to alter to your own inspirations. You'll find old country barns with cupolas and silos, stately country homes, beautiful churches tucked into scenic valleys and rustic mills reflected in still pools. More than 20 of the patterns include a pencil drawing to aid you in planning the layers of your project.
Whether you're a beginning relief carver or an experienced relief carver searching for a new topic, Landscapes in Relief includes something for you.
Photos: Colour
Contents
Introduction
Gallery
Chapter One: Basic Building Materials
Five Examples
Barn Building
Materials
Chapter
Two: Pattern Work
Enlarging and Reducing the Design
Adding Circles
and Ovals
Transferring the Pattern
Advanced Pattern Techniques (Changing
Materials and Adding Reflections)
Chapter
Three: Carving Woods
Common Woods for Relief Carving
Chapter
Four: Tools and Cuts
Basic Tools for Relief Carving
Basic Cuts
Chapter
Five: Carving Step-by-Step
Getting Started
Pattern: Mountain View
Farm
Step-By-Step Carving
- Working the pattern onto the block
- Carving
the levels into the block
- Re-establishing the pattern tracing
- Skyline
level: mountains
- Skyline level: distant treelines
- Background level;
pine trees
- Background level: treeline and wall
- Background level: barn
complex
- Mid-ground level: road and pathways
- Background/mid-ground level:
grass
- Mid-ground level: large tree
- Foreground level: split-rail fence
Chapter
Six: Painting Step-by-Step
Basic Dry Brushing
Step-by-Step Painting
-
Summer scene
- Winter scene
Chapter
Seven: Patterns and lllustrations
- Barn Roof Sample
- Dirt Path Barn
-
Springhouse Barn
- Hay Barn
- Springhouse
- Stone Wall Barn
-
Grain Mill
- Large Grist Mill
- Saw Mill Sluice
- Old-Time Country Home
-
Chapel Door
- Sunrise Service
- Country Church
- Waterwheel and Swans
-
Foot Bridge
- Stream Bridge
- Covered Bridge
- Maryland Tobacco Barn
Complex
- Farm Lane Feed Barn
- Steeple Tower
- Welcome Sign
- New
England Road
- Old Oak Bridge
- Prairie Soddy
- Fishing Bridge
-
Hen House, Christmas Time
- Farm Frame, Farm Lane Stone Barn
- Peter's Creek
Mill
- Red Cedar Cove