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To celebrate Heartwood Art carvings being featured in upcoming issue of Woodcarving Illustrated the “Follow My Carving” series was created to give you a an insider’s view on how the art is made. Carving limbs and branches is so much fun. Here’s the final shape of the first limb. As you can see, it looks…

To celebrate Heartwood Art carvings being featured in upcoming issue of Woodcarving Illustrated the “Follow My Carving” series was created to give you a an insider’s view on how the art is made. Since this particular limb doesn’t have any branches coming from the bottom, the edges are simply rounded over with long, shallow strokes….

To celebrate Heartwood Art carvings being featured in upcoming issue of Woodcarving Illustrated the “Follow My Carving” series was created to give you a an insider’s view on how the art is made. Shaping the limbs is one of my favorite parts of carving these trees. Each one has its own personality. I start at…

To celebrate Heartwood Art carvings being featured in upcoming issue of Woodcarving Illustrated the “Follow My Carving” series was created to give you a an insider’s view on how the art is made. Now that the trunk has a little bit of shaping, the knot hole can be made. A flat gouge is held at…

To celebrate Heartwood Art carvings being featured in upcoming issue of Woodcarving Illustrated the “Follow My Carving” series was created to give you a an insider’s view on how the art is made. Now that the roots are finished it’s time to start integrating them into the trunk and shaping it up to the first…