Carving
Animal Caricatures
Complete step-by-step instructions for
24 projects with 72 halftones and 13 line drawings
by Elma Waltner
Softcover
195 x 265mm
104pp
Published
by Dover Publications Inc., Mineola NY USA
Unabridged reprint of the original
(1951) edition.
R.R.P.$19.90
ISBN 0-486-22813-4
Extract from back cover of book:
Elma Waltner, Crafts Designer from Hurley, South Dakota, has put together a series of specific instructions that will enable even the amateur, using the simplest tools and materials, to progress easily from raw wood to an interesting hand-carved animal. All that's needed is a small block of two-inch wood redwood, white pine, sugar pine, western pine, basswood, cottonwood or any other soft wood and a simple pocket or carver's knife. Inexpensive watercolors or enamels, shellac and varnish are perfect for decoration and finishing.
Each step in the carving is made absolutely clear through photographs and angle sketches. There are profile patterns (to be traced on the block) for all of the 24 projects, ranging from Bolivar Bull through Casper Camel to Sammy Stegosaurus. Horatio Horse, Gulliver Goat and Esmerelda Elephant serve as teaching pieces, with complete instructions from start to finish for each. Once these have been mastered, the same methods are easily applied to the rest of the projects, and special steps in the carving of these are again shown in photographs.
The poses and animals represented here are only a beginning in animal caricature, and the hobbyist will soon find himself developing other animals and other poses of these familiar friends to add to his wooden menagerie. He will find in these and in his own projects an almost inexhaustible source of gentle relaxation and delight.
Photos: Black & White
Contents
Woods
for Carving
Tools for Carving
Horatio
Horse
Gulliver Goat
Clementine
Cow
Esmerelda Elephant
Diogenes Donkey
Pansy Pig
Geraldine Giraffe
Theobold
Turtle
Hannibal Hippo
Felicia Fawn
Clarissa Calf
Casper Camel
Bolivar
Bull
Homer Hound "Amiable"
Homer Hound "Mournful"
Homer Hound "Itchy"
Homer Hound "Remorseful"
Homer Hound "Playful"
Homer Hound "Snoopy
Dmitri
Dinosaur
Sammy Stegosaurus
Tillie Triceratops
Sophronie Sail Reptile
Teddy
Tyrannosaurus