Betty Padden

Broschiertes Buch

Carving & Painting Christmas Ornaments

Easy Techniques for 23 Patterns in Wood

Beschreibung

Carve Your Own Treasured Holiday Ornaments Get inspired to create a wonderful collection of handmade holiday decorations for a child or grandchild to treasure. Popular woodcarving teacher and author Betty Padden shows how to carve memorable ornaments to keep or give to family and friends. Imagine a tree decorated with your own beautifully carved angels, elves, polar bears, poinsettias, and more. You're sure to have a merry carving experience with these fun projects, color photographs, and original patterns. Step-by-step projects are divided into three categories--beginning, intermediate, and advanced. A special section on painting covers basic concepts of blending, highlighting and shading, so that even a novice can get great results. The best ornaments on the holiday tree are always those that are handmade. Giving these hand-carved Christmas ornaments will be almost as much fun as making them! Get inspired to create your own beautifully carved ornaments, with: - 6 complete step-by-step projects, arranged by skill level - 23 original patterns for delightful Christmas ornaments - Angels, elves, polar bears, snowmen, poinsettias, and more - Painting tips for highlighting, shading, brushes, and mixing colors - Festive ideas to hang on a branch or display on a shelf

Autor

Betty Padden is a professional woodcarving artist and woodcarving instructor. Her commissioned works are displayed at Disneyland, Disney World, Faneuil Hall, and Busch Gardens. She is the author of Lettering & Sign Carving Workbook (Fox Chapel Publishing, 2011).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fox Chapel Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 279mm x 217mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9781565238435
• ISBN-10: 1565238435
• Artikelnr.: 40546781