Tiny Whittling by Steve Tomashek
Whittling is the cheapest and easiest hobby you can imagine: with just a sharp knife, a little practice and the tiniest block of wood, you can make a characterful carving in less than an hour. It's relaxing, too, and the charming and quirky results offer a cute payoff in return for a very slight investment of either time or money. A warning, though: this simple hobby can prove addictive. Tiny Whittling is a modern guide to this very ancient craft. Steve Tomashek, whose masterly little figures have won a slew of awards in the US, guides the reader through the basics, showing you the first simple cuts (on root vegetables, to minimize the danger of accidents) to create first a turnip bear, then a carrot mouse. Confidence built, you can graduate to wood, and work through photographic steps, practising each technique with specific projects, and enjoying the increasingly polished results. You'll learn how to sand, paint and decorate your carvings and the final chapters teach you how to make jointed figures and how to undertake minute groups, from a Noah's Ark to a forest scene.
Steve Tomashek (Brandenburg, Germany) works as an artist in a tiny village in Brandenburg in Germany, indulging the passion for carving in miniature that he's had since childhood. The Miniature Menagerie, his online collection of enchanting wooden animals, not only showcases his whittling art but also features animated films of the artist at work.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781782403784 |
| ISBN 10 | 1782403787 |
| Title | Tiny Whittling |
| Author | Steve Tomashek |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Quarto Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2016-05-05 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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