[Woodcarver] Quick question

[Linehan718 at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/27/2005 9:53:53 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
jbatesjr at triad.rr.com writes:

For a beginning carver, after blocking out a  figure, animal or caricature 
carving, what area do you start  detailing first? 
This question was brought up the other day and  I just assumed that it was up 
to the individual. Any other  suggestions?   Top - down?    Front to back?
Thanks 
Jimmy B.



I personally work front to back.  My reasoning is that I always  do the 
harder stuff first.  More detailed stuff is in the front, and thus,  to me is more 
important.  you can hide small mistakes easier in the  background.  Also you 
can always go deeper into the wood as you work your  way down if you need to, 
but you cant add more to the first layer if you didn't  leave enough wood.   As 
in carving a face, I always do detail work on  the eyes first, the face won't 
work if the eyes are badly done.   Imagine detailing a complete bust only to 
screw up the eyes at the end.   have to throw it away after all that hard 
work, but if you start with the eyes  and screw them up, when you start over 
that's all you have to do twice.  I  know that there are reasons also, to work back 
to front, but my way seems to  work for me.
 
Maura carvin'  in  nyc
http://www.carvinginNYC.com
http://www.picturetrail.com/whiteknight718
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