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Carving Award-winning Songbirds: An Encyclopedia of Carving, Sculpting and Painting Techniques

Carving Award-winning Songbirds: An Encyclopedia of Carving, Sculpting and Painting Techniques
By Lori Corbett

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This handbook provides all the tools and guidance needed to carve and paint realistic songbirds, including an overview of carving tools, materials, and safety. An in-depth look at carving techniques covers bandsawing basics and songbird anatomy, including instructions on carving the torso, head, and feathers. A special section focuses on the difficult task of carving the legs and feet. Three projects, the Mountain Bluebird, the Waxwing, and the Red-Breasted Nuthatch, feature natural history notes, male and female measurements, patterns with step-by-step instructions and progressive photographs, and paint-mixing charts.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #279967 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-02-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 256 pages

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About the Author
Lori Corbett is an award-winning bird carver and a carving instructor. She is a contributor to Wood Carving Illustrated. She lives in St. Anthony, Idaho.

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Excellent Bird Carving book5
This is one of the best books I've seen on carving Songbirds. It covers not only the equipment, etc., required, but it's an excellent textbook on bird anatomy, the basis for any bird or animal carving.

And the wonderful directions carry through the book through all projects including the painting.
Woodcarver/Reviewer Texas

Comprehensive, well written, and great photos and graphics5
I have a number of excellent books on bird carving, but I must say that this book is one of the best wriien and easy to read books in my library. The writing style is wonderful and the organization and flow of material is well thought out. This is one of those "must have" books for any bird carver. The amount of detail and wide range of subject matter was what impressed me. I got so much more than I expected.

THE most complete bird carving book5
Simply the most comprehensive manual on bird carving that I own.

Most books suffer some kind of short-coming. Muehlmatt's book is good, but lacks painting information. Hillman's are totally worthless..

But this book covers everything....painting, habitat, anatomy...everything.

If you are new to bird carving...buy this book FIRST! If you are a seasoned carver, buy it because you will learn something from it.