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| Landscapes in Relief: Carving Techniques and Patterns | 
| Author: Lora S. Irish
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 634975
Media: Paperback
Edition: First printing
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 108
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.3
ISBN: 1565231279
Dewey Decimal Number: 736
EAN: 9781565231276
ASIN: 1565231279
Publication Date: September 1, 2000
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Product Description
Country landscape scenes featuring barns, churches, rustic mills, and mountain valleys are especially attractive when executed in the relief style of woodcarving. This guide features 32 patterns and step-by-step instructions for carving them. How to map out levels in a pattern, trace pattern levels onto the blank, work roughed-out levels, and carve texture for foliage and buildings are explained with accompanying illustrations to clarify each technique. Also included are ways to create three-dimensional foreground elements and dry brush finished carvings with oil paints.
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 Carving Landscapes March 13, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you are into carving landscapes then you will learn a good deal about carving techniques. Learn how to carve various materials used in structures you are trying to represent. Lora Irish is one of my favorite designers and I feel this book is worth its cost. I cannot over emphasize the need for quality carving tools and proper procedures for keeping them sharp.
 What you see is not quite what you get August 16, 2003
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I initially chose this book because of it's very nice illustrations. My mistake was in buying this as my first relief book. I assumed that the step-by-step instructions for the sample project, Mountain View Farm, would be geared towards beginners since it was, after all, broken into steps with corresponding photos. Not quite.Now, in her defense, Lora Irish does cover the basics of relief carving, however, I found it to be too general for a beginner. Also, I often found myself tripping over slight contradictions between what the author instructs you to do and what she actually does. This is especially a problem if you use the picture on the back cover for reference, which is a slightly different version of this project. Carvers more familiar with the process might not have a problem here, but for a beginner who hangs on every detail of the example, like myself, he or she might become frustrated. Lastly, I would have preferred that the entire lesson's scene been included in the process (the waterwheel, water, and reflection elements are left out) so as to have an opportunity to get familiar with creating the water's illusion of depth and the use of reflections. The good news is, the picture on the back cover is the full scene, you'll just have to figure out how to do the waterwheel yourself. In conclusion, if you have a bit of carving experience and are looking for a refresher course or beautifully illustrated patterns this book is worth looking into; if you are looking for a beginner's guide to relief carving, you might want to look elsewhere.
Neither fish nor fowl April 28, 2001
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
While I am a great fan of L.S. Irish as an artist, her newest book falls far short of being of the same caliber as her art. If it is intended for novices, it lack sufficient detail. If it is for intermediate or advanced carvers, it wastes far too many pages on the basics. It has 32 nice patterns which are mostly variations on the theme of old barns in the woods. One of the projects in the book can be downloaded from her website FREE. Last of all, many of the photos are in color. However, it looks as if the photographer used daylight film under incandescent lights because all of the photos are yellow-red. This makes it impossible to appreciate the sections on painting the carvings. All in all, I cannot recommend this book.
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