Woodburning Realistic Animals shows how to create amazingly lifelike portraits of domestic animals and wildlife with 12 step-by-step projects plus skill-building tutorials for creating realistic eyes, short fur, long fur, manes, and whiskers.

Each title features bird reference and woodcarving patterns. 22 detailed ready-to-use patterns and instructions are drawn to scale, including patterns for a bald eagle, redtailed hawk and polar bear.

Every power tool and technique necessary for capturing animals in wood, with concise instructions and never-before demonstrated techniques and carving sequences for transforming a block of wood into a life-like animal. With 150 full-color photographs, every step is illustrated. Twelve project plans are provided: a bear, bobcat, bison, elephant, fox, giraffe, horse, rabbit, squirrel, tiger, whitetail deer and wolf.

Each title in this series features bird reference and woodcarving patterns. Ready-to-use patterns are drawn to scale for the following species: Cardinal, Wood Duck, Bluebird, Pintail Drake, Chickadee, Blue Jay, Baltimore Oriole, Ruffed Grouse, Mallard, Boreal Owl, Robin, Hooded Merganser, Hummingbird, Canada Goose, American Widgeons, Common Loon, and Canvasback.

The Wood Burn Book teaches you everything you need to know to master the art of pyrography.

This book begins by considering responses by French artists to the First World War, showing how Purism, Dada, and early Surrealism are related to the ethos of post-war reconstruction. The authors then discuss the language of construction in places as dissimilar as France, Germany, and the Soviet Union; the contrasting demands of the utility and decoration of objects and paintings; and the relationship of surrealism to questions of sexuality and gender and to Freudian theory. The book concludes by addressing the widespread debate over realism in art: whether it represents an alternative to the elitism of the avant-garde or whether avant-garde art should play a role in the development of a modern realism.