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Carving Animal Caricatures
By Elma Waltner
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Elma Waltner, Crafts Designer from Hurley, South Dakota, has put together a series of specific instructions that will enable even the amateur, using the simplest tools and materials, to progress easily from raw wood to an interesting hand-carved animal. All that's needed is a small block of two-inch wood — redwood, white pine, sugar pine, western pine, basswood, cottonwood, or any other soft wood — and a simple pocket or carver's knife. Inexpensive watercolors or enamels, shellac, and varnish are perfect for decoration and finishing.
Each step in the carving is made absolutely clear through photographs and angle sketches. There are profile patterns (to be traced on the block) for all of the 24 projects, ranging from Bolivar Bull through Casper Camel to Sammy Stegosaurus. Horatio Horse, Gulliver Goat, and Esmerelda Elephant serve as teaching pieces, with complete instructions from start to finish for each. Once these have been mastered, the same methods are easily applied to the rest of the projects, and special steps in the carving of these are again shown in photographs.
The poses and animals represented here are only a beginning in animal caricature, and the hobbyist will soon find himself developing other animals and other poses of these familiar friends to add to his wooden menagerie. They will find in these and in their own projects an almost inexhaustible source of gentle relaxation and delight.
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Carving Animal Caricatures - Elma Waltner
KNIFE
Woods for Carving
Most of the figures in this book were carved of two-inch California redwood planking. (Actually the wood that is commercially known as two-inch stock is only 1 ¾ inches thick.) All of the patterns are proportioned for this thickness of stock. If thinner woods are used, several thicknesses should be glued together to make the stock the required thickness.
Redwood, white pine, sugar pine, western pine, basswood, and cottonwood are good carving woods. In general, the softer woods with less pronounced grain will give best results, especially for a beginner in woodcarving. If hardwoods are desired, gum, mahogany, maple, and black walnut may be used. Hardwoods have more beauty, but split and crack more easily than the softer types.
In selecting the wood, avoid knots or burl grain. Place the pattern in such a manner that the grain of the wood runs parallel with the thin portions of the design; the legs, tail, neck, or in the case of the elephant, the trunk. In some figures, it will be impossible to have all appendages arranged with the grain. In such cases, carve these pieces separately and attach them to the body. Drill a hole in the body and shape the end of the piece to fit, then glue in place. If carefully done, the joint will scarcely be
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