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Step 17
Now that the limbs are shaped, I move to the outside carvings. I’m going to add a decorative carving to the circle around the tree and, in doing so,
I may knick one of the branches. If I do, the bark carving will easily hide it.
I used a carving knife to make a very shallow outline of the circle before I removed the pattern. I went back over the
outline with the knife several more times, deepening the cut as I went. You can see that line toward the top of the picture. Next, I used a micro-veining
gouge, which is a super tiny V shaped gouge, to deepen and widen the line a bit. You can see the beginning of that near the bottom of the picture.
The micro-viener is perfect for this job because I don’t actually want to go too deep with the cut. Relief carving is all about
illusion of depth. I simply want to make the line deep and wide enough to cast a nice shadow. The outline will also act as a stop cut when I begin to apply
the decorative carving
The next installment will show the decorative carving.
Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 3 |
Step 4 | Step 5 |
Step 6 | Step 7 | Step8 |
Step 9 | Step 10 |
Step 11 | Step 12 | Step 13 |
Step 14 |
Step 15 |
Step 16 | Step 17 | Step 18
Step 19 | Step 20 | Step 21 |
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Step 23 | Step 24 |
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