Carve Beautiful Water Birds Explore the beauty of Water birds by using these templates to create your own collection.
Be sure to add other guides by Anthony Hillman, published by Echo Point Books, to your library: Painting Duck Decoys, Carving Miniature Duck Decoys, Painting Shorebird Decoys, Carving Favorite Songbirds, and Carving Traditional Fish Decoys..
Carving Water Birds is an accurate and easy-to-use guide for carvers of all abilities to use in creating some of the best-known birds of watery domains.
All Patterns have top, front, and side views to aid in maintaining proportions.
Six of the templates here are life-size, and the remainder include notes providing full-size dimensions; many of these carvings can be made from a single piece of wood.
Species included are: Atlantic Puffin American Coot Black Skimmer Virginia Rail Horned Grebe Belted Kingfisher Common Tern Herring Gull Common Loon Brown Pelican Glossy Ibis Great Blue Heron Hillman provides detailed Instructions on how to choose and prepare the wood, and how to proceed with various parts of the body, including feet for the standing birds.
Created by master carver and wildlife illustrator Anthony Hillman, these templates for 12 species of Water birds show you everything you need to know to skillfully craft each one.
Carve Beautiful Water Birds Explore the beauty of Water birds by using these templates to create your own collection
