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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. To make the decorative carving for the circle, I start with a few straight, shallow cuts (on the right). All cuts are…

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…

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. If you carve enough trees, sooner or later you’re bound to come across a weak part of the wood and either break…

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. There’s a bit of trick to making the branches stand out from the limbs. A very shallow angle is used to make…

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….