These ancient creatures from folklore have captured the modern imagination, including Tom Wolfe's. In this book he brings his creativity and skill to the task of creating a whole community of gnomes, bringing them to life from a block of wood. With each step illustrated in full color, Tom takes the carver cut-by-cut to a finished figure. The book includes a gallery and patterns for 5 other gnomes plus "gnome" accessories such as mushrooms and a cart. The gnomes are exciting projects, allowing the carver to add a little of his or her own creativity to the work.
Skylar Johnson is a full time professional woodcarver and author of how to books for woodcarvers. When not writing new books for woodcarvers he may be found teaching seminars around the country. He has won many woodcarving awards and his carvings are in the collections of individuals around the world. He and his family currently reside in the mountains of Colorado.
Borders and corner square designs are the focus of Chip Carving Classics Two. These Old World designs are created so that you know exactly how to round the bend on any project. Plus contemporary and stylized free form patterns finish out the Book.
From the late 1300s to the Reformation, alabaster carving was a major activity in the English Midlands, in an area centred on Nottingham. Altarpieces and panels were produced for the home market, but also for export; the sculptures have a distinctive style, dictated by the religious subjects and by the material, and were usually painted and gilded. At the Reformation, such items were hidden or destroyed, and it is the survival of numerous continental examples, particularly in France, together with the remaining examples from England, that enables the history of alabaster carving to be documented.
