The final part of a three part series on carving the realistic female face in Butternut wood.

Part II of a three part series on carving the female face in Butternut (also known as White Walnut).

This instructional video covers the roughing in/setting up of the female face in Butternut wood. What is the difference between the structure of the female and the male face? This lesson answers that questions. A good number of people have requested I cover the topic of carving the female face, so here you go!

This concludes the detailing of the eyes, nose, mouth, hair, jacket and shirt of the weathered sailor carving.

This carving covers the details of carving a weathered old sailor with an equally weathered coat and shirt.

Many students have asked me about how I carve closed eyes and the truth is, it’s actually fairly simple

This hiding greenman is turned away from the viewer and covered with leaves. A great project to make for carvers looking to sell their work since these sell like hotcakes.

This video is about the fundamentals of woodcarving: the setup, tools, materials, and fixtures.

This is a simple and easy project, requiring you to employ some basic understanding of stop cuts, relief cuts, undercuts, and more.

This Dogwood Flower is another simple project, but with a little more detail than the Birch leaf. Multiple petals require some familiarity with undercuts and stopcuts.

The simple face project is ideal for beginners looking to start into face carving. It covers the basics of setting up and carving the male face, while hiding the mouth and chin with a flowing beard.

This second part of the Simple Face tutorial explains how I detail the eyes, beard, and mouth.

Intermediate level project, carving the face in Plains Cottonwood Bark. This first video is about how to set up a good foundation for the realistic face.

This video explains how I use gouges, knives, and chisels to shape parts of the schnoz. Feel free to scrub through to find the parts you need help with.

The eyes certainly capture the life of the face and in this video I show you how to carve the eyes as a part of this intermediate face carving series.

This video explains how I carve the male mouth. Feel free to use this as a visual tool by scrubbing to areas of the video that are most relevant to you.

This video explains how I carve the hair in Plains Cottonwood Bark as a part of this intermediate face carving series.

This project covers the creation of the Oglala Lakota Medicine Man: Black Elk. Black Elk was a commission taken on while filming the advanced series.

This is part 2 in the creation of the Oglala Lakota Medicine Man: Black Elk.