Easy Woodcarving

learning to carve has never been easier If you have always wanted to learn how to carve, Easy Woodcarving is the book for you. With clear, step-by-step guidance, author Cyndi Joslyn, a professional woodcarver and carving instructor, will provide everything you need to know to get started. You'll learn the basics of carving through a series of skill-building exercises, accompanied by hundreds of color photos, that will have you creating original folk art projects in no time. Inside Easy Woodcarving, you will find: *The essentials of tool selection, maintenance, and wood varieties *Techniques for carving basic shapes, such as cylinders, balls. and cubes *Easy-to-use patterns similar to those used in fiber arts *Straightforward painting and finishing instruction *Bonus sewing projects If you've enjoyed the crafts of needlework, painting, and weaving and are looking to discover something new, this book will inspire and inform you to discover the joy of carving. Cyndi Joslyn is a woodcarving teacher and the author of Carving Santas from Around the World and North Woods Nativity. She lives in Missoula, Montana, where she is working on an upcoming book on Halloween projects.