Carving Flat-Plane Style Caricatures shows you how to carve more than 50 imaginative figure patterns in the traditional flat-plane style, from lumberjacks and golfers to trolls and elves. Front and side-view patterns show you how to achieve success with just one knife and a few simple, well-placed cuts.Once you try it, you'll be hooked by this distinctive style of figure carving, in which large flat areas called 'planes' are deliberately left intact. There's no smoothing, rounding, sculpting or sanding involved. Each simple finished piece merely implies detail - and says more by carving less.Discover how to carve and paint both a humorous folksy character and a colourful toy horse, with step-by-step photos and detailed instructions. You'll be delighted with the way these charming caricatures come to life with an engaging, folk-art personality!

A single carving knife and an afternoon is all that is needed to create one of the charming little characters in this book. The whittled little folk are full of personality, from the Monk, to the Policeman, to the Woodsman, acclaimed artist Harley Refsal provides patterns and instructions for carving over 20 delightful characters in wood. At the beginning of "Whittling Little Folk", readers will find step-by-step carving and painting instructions for a Scandinavian inspired man and woman. Once they have learned to carve these two projects, they will find an additional 20 patterns that can also be created with the same technique and some subtle changes. Each project includes four separate patterns (for each view) and carving/painting notes. Also included is a brief overview of the Scandinavian flat-plane style of carving and instructions on how to customize patterns.