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Copyright© Chris Pye 2006
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Dedicated to the teaching, learning, and love of woodcarving
Slipstones Woodcarving Workshop Manuals
LEARNING TO CARVE – 1
Successful woodcarving depends on a mix of aptitude, knowledge and skill.
Knowledge and skill can make even a little ability go a long way!
What’s the best way to make the most of what we have, and go about learning to carve?
Read on...
Contents
1: Introduction
3
2: A Skill
4
3: Desire
5
4: Demands
6
5: Talent
7
6: What is possible?
8
7: Right Conditions
9
8: Intelligent Learning
10
9: Systematic Practice
11
10: Summary
12
The writing here is my personal relection based on contacts with a large number of students and
carvers over many years.
Feel free to use, copy, print and distribute this ebook, unchanged and for no cost.
http://www.chrispye-woodcarving.com
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Dedicated to the teaching, learning, and love of woodcarving
Slipstones Woodcarving Workshop Manuals
LEARNING TO CARVE – 1
Learn to Carve with Chris Pye...
1: Introduction
Woodcarving is a most astounding craft.
On the one hand is the timeless decorative incising of treen or woodware. On the other the
breathe-snatching lowers and feathers of Grinling Gibbons.
Woodcarving includes the Christian igurative sculpture of Renaissance Germany; the Buddhas
of 13th century Kamakura Japan; African tribal gods; the sculpture of Barlach and Henry Moore;
lettering and wildlife; furniture and architecture - and so much more.
The roots of woodcarving go back through time, in afiliation with stone, to Greece, Egypt - to who
knows where. Yet at its simplest woodcarving can happen when you sharpen your pencil with a
penknife.
Committed woodcarvers know how self-absorbing this craft can be; how ‘therapeutic’ the
concentration; how utterly simple it is compared with
hi-technology; how nothing is hidden.
Everything happens in and by your own hand.
Simple lettering:
Getting one good “0” is not so
much the problem as getting
three the same!
So, how do you learn to carve? Where do you start? What do you need to know?
I have been asked many questions along these lines for as long as I have been carving. And other
questions about being ‘artistic’ enough or practical enough; about how much natural talent is
required; about secret tips and tricks to learning, and so on.
What follows is drawn from my observations of what students imagine and expect, my replies and
advice.
These thoughts may sound a little blunt and not the list of do’s and don’t you might be looking for,
but if you want to learn to carve - and carve well - start here.
I start with a premise
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LEARNING TO CARVE – 1
Learn to Carve with Chris Pye...
2: A Skill
Woodcarving is, at its root, a skill.
It has other, vital, skills built into it: the sharpening of tools; the handling of cutting edges; the
ability to see in three dimensions, designing with wood in mind, and so on.
But it is a skill and, as such, can be learned, as any other skill.
If you start here - leaving the magic and mystery
to one side for the moment - then what you want
to do is learn woodcarving skills.
Learn woodcarving skills, then apply them to
whatever ideas and subjects you like.
You can of course do the two things
simultaneously.
Success in any skill depends on a mix of aptitude,
knowledge and practice.
Think how you learned to drive a car, type, or play
the guitar for example.
Really do this now.
Consider how you learned these or any other
skills...
Where did you begin?
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Learn to Carve with Chris Pye...
3: Desire
When you considered how you learned to drive, for example, where did you start? What did you
see as the beginning?
The beginning must have been that you
wanted
to learn to drive. Similarly you must
want
to learn
woodcarving.
But surely we agree you want to learn - after all that’s why you are reading this.
Yes, but the crunch, right at the beginning, is to realise that it is the emotions that start us going,
that drive us. We are energised by gut desires - not simple head-wishes.
Many beginners have a
head fantasy of learning
to carve but really have no
idea of hard work it might
take to realise this simple
wish. Especially if they want
to carve
well
, as we all do
- to the best of what we are
capable.
We need the energy of
emotion, the will, the
passion
, to overcome
obstacles and frustrations,
to keep us hanging in when
our patience has run out.
Additionally it will be
the
emotions that reward us
:
the physical pleasure of
cutting with sharp tools,
the sounds and smells; the
joy of creativity, of making
something beautiful where
there was nothing before.
And there are untold
rewards to be had...
We need this strong emotional engagement because success in carving, or any skill, will
make many
demands
of us.
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