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Once the sculptor has selected their wood, he or she begins a general shaping process using gouges of various sizes. The...
07/03/2023

Once the sculptor has selected their wood, he or she begins a general shaping process using gouges of various sizes. The gouge is a curved blade that can remove large portions of wood smoothly. For harder woods, the sculptor may use gouges sharpened with stronger bevels, about 35 degrees, and a mallet similar to a stone carver's. The terms gouge and chisel are open to confusion. Correctly, a gouge is a tool with a curved cross-section and a chisel is a tool with a flat cross-section. However, professional carvers tend to refer to them all as 'chisels'. Smaller sculptures may require the woodcarver to use a knife, and larger pieces might require the use of a saw. No matter what wood is selected or tool used, the wood sculptor must always carve either across or with the grain of the wood, never against the grain.

There are several types of wood carving, each of which employs unique methods and requires specific carving tools. Howev...
06/03/2023

There are several types of wood carving, each of which employs unique methods and requires specific carving tools. However, they share an essential characteristic--they require the carvers to use very sharp tools. Many woodcarvers wear safety goggles and wood carving gloves to protect themselves from cuts and flying bits of wood.

Here are 5 common types of wood carving. Most of them work well for beginning woodcarvers. The exception is chainsaw carving, which is generally best suited to experienced carvers.

In a relief carving, the design protrudes from the piece of wood, giving the piece a sense of depth. Relief carving is o...
06/03/2023

In a relief carving, the design protrudes from the piece of wood, giving the piece a sense of depth. Relief carving is one of the oldest forms of wood carving and requires a variety of carving tools.

Wood has both advantages and drawbacks as a sculpture medium. Because of its fibrous strength, it can be carved more thi...
28/02/2023

Wood has both advantages and drawbacks as a sculpture medium. Because of its fibrous strength, it can be carved more thinly and precisely than stone or animal bone. For large compositions, two or more pieces of wood may be carved then joined. Hardwoods are more difficult to sculpt but possess greater lustre and endurance, while softwoods are easier to shape, but less durable. No wood is as durable, weatherproof or insect-immune as stone, and thus is used mainly for indoor works. Lastly, whatever wood is used, it remains an anisotropic material (its properties differ when measured in different directions), and is strongest in the direction of the grain. Thus sculptors carve their most delicate lines with the grain rather than against it.

The sculptor starts by choosing a block of wood appropriate to the shape and scale of his intended design. Employing gou...
28/02/2023

The sculptor starts by choosing a block of wood appropriate to the shape and scale of his intended design. Employing gouges of various sizes, he then reduces the wood to an approximate shape, which he refines with a variety of tools like veiners and v-tools. When the detailed work is complete, the sculptor smoothes the surfaces with implements like rasps and rifflers, and with different grains of sandpaper. Lastly, to enhance and preserve the sculpture, he stains it walnut or linseed oil, and then coats it in varnish, resin or wax.

Paleolithic art and culture is full of examples of prehistoric sculpture, of which the best known instances are the Venu...
27/02/2023

Paleolithic art and culture is full of examples of prehistoric sculpture, of which the best known instances are the Venus figurines, carved from a variety of ivory, animal bone and rock. No doubt wood was also widely used, though little of it has survived. The fact that we have the Shigir Idol (7500 BCE, Yekaterinburg, Russian Urals) - a masterpiece of Mesolithic art - is nothing short of a miracle. Wood was also in widespread use throughout all the ancient civilizations, notably in Japanese art, as well as Mesopotamian art and Egyptian art. It was also common in Archaic Greek sculpture, although, as first marble sculpture and later bronze sculpture grew popular, the use of wood as a primary material declined rapidly. By the time of Early Classical Greek sculpture (c.480-450), the art of wood carving was restricted to small-scale works only. Even here, chryselephantine sculpture dominated. Note: In Korea and China, jade carving was the most prestigious type of carving.

The greatest wood carvings in the history of sculpture were produced during the Late Gothic era in Germany (c.1470-1530)...
27/02/2023

The greatest wood carvings in the history of sculpture were produced during the Late Gothic era in Germany (c.1470-1530), when a number of outstanding examples of altarpiece art, and other religious works were created. (See: German Renaissance Art, 1430-1580.) Wood sculptors from this era include the celebrated German master artist Tilman Riemenschneider (1460-1531), who carved the celebrated Holy Blood Altar (1499-1504, Rothenburg) as well as a series of stunning limewood carvings, including altarpieces, reliefs, portrait busts and life-size statues, characterized by bold Gothic symbolism and realistic carving. Other famous German wood carvers include Veit Stoss (1445-1533), best known for the High Altar of St Mary's Church, Krakow (1484); Michael Pacher (1435-98), famous for the St Wolfgang Altarpiece (1471-81); Gregor Erhart (c.1470-1540), famous for his statue of St. Mary Magdalene (c.1510, Louvre); and the mysterious Jorg Zurn (1583-1638), who produced the dazzling spruce and limewood Altar of the Virgin (1613-16), in Uberlingen.

Some of the finest examples of early European wood carving are from the Middle Ages in Germany, Russia, Italy and France...
26/02/2023

Some of the finest examples of early European wood carving are from the Middle Ages in Germany, Russia, Italy and France, where the typical themes of that era were used in Christian icons. In England many complete examples remain from the 16th and 17th century, when oak was often used. In general, really fine carving is done in fruitwood (wood of a fruit tree) because that is easy to work with. The famous woodcarver Grinling Gibbons used to work with lime wood. Complex pieces are often carved in separate sections which are later stuck together

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25/02/2023

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