Songbird Carving II

By Rosalyn Leach Daisey and Sina P. Kurman

Book Overview

This is the second comprehensive wood carving manual by the successful team of Roz Daisey and Pat Kurman. Through a detailed yet concise series of carving and painting instructions, beautifully drawn illustrations and careful photography, novice as well as expert carvers are given all the information they need to complete realistic wood carvings of five different songbirds. The instructions for creating wooden replicas of the male and female Northern Cardinal, House Sparrow, Blue Jay, and American Robin provide five home seminars at your fingertips. Roz and Pat are experienced carvers and teachers who have developed systems that work for everybody every time. Their own carving achievements, abilities to illustrate and communicate, and their devotion to the bird carving art forms they create all combine here to inspire a new generation of wildfowl artist.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887401198
• ISBN13: 9780887401190
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Schiffer Craft
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.9" x 11.4"

Customer Reviews

Songbird Carving II

Book is very detailed and photographs are excellent. Well written and focuses extremely well on details of carving and paint techniques.

Rosalyn Diasey can help even a novice painter look great!

My husband, Ron, is an excellent carver and has been doing songbirds for about ten years. He brings life to his carvings by burning the feathers in with such detail nearly everyone reaches out to "pet" his birds. This past year he decided to go beyond the "natural" look and asked me to paint a robin so that the gift to our grandson would be from both of us.I had only worked with watercolors previously and so, having had no experience with acrylic painting, I was still able to follow the instructions in this wonderful book and came out with a robin that looked very real. In fact, when painting one day, I had to answer the door and the guest flinched, thinking I was holding a real robin. Now if I can only come up with her instructions for painting a blue bird and/or a blue herron I would be grateful beyond words.