Carving Faces Workbook: Learn to Carve Facial Expressions with the Legendary Harold Enlow (Fox Chapel Publishing) Detailed Lips, Eyes, Noses, and Hair to Add Expressive Life to Your Woodcarvings

Just started wood carving and this book is great for newbies. very well written

This book is fantastic. I've only ever made a spoon, but my brother is an impressive whittler. He was very happy to receive this book for his birthday!

I received this book today and took a good long look at it. I believe it to be a very useful, helpful book. Not only does Mr. Enlow cover the basic elements of face carving, he also includes several fully carved, detailed faces that I found very helpful and will adapt to some of my own carvings. I gave this book 4 stars because I felt the photos could have been better and maybe showed the particular point in the carving from different views. Other than that, I highly recommend this book for beginning and intermediate carvers. I disagree with the two people who gave it only two stars. One person said you can't learn to carve from a book and should find other carvers to help you learn. While I agree you can't just read a book a learn to carve and must take knife and wood in hand and go at it yourself and certainly, if you can be around other carvers you will definitely learn more and progress at a faster rate, using a book as a starting point can be very effective. I know there are different learning styles among different people and some do not learn well from books, not because of lack of intelligence or literateness, but just because they have a different learning style. The other person just said don't buy it without any reason given. Everyone's entitled to their opinion. I've enjoyed Mr. Enlow's carvings and books for a long time. Caricature carving is my primary focus. If the nose is a little crooked you can always say, "Well, sure it's crooked. It's a caricature!" LOL

Taught me some great skills

Easy to read and understand!

Good tutorial for carvers wanting to branch off from their main carving projects and try their hand at wood spirit/caricature type fun carving. There's alot of great info within it's pages and as usual these "Masters" make it look sooo easy! Practice-practice-practice! My only negative impression is not knowing what type of wood he uses. I would think bass wood but I can't seem to ever get the fine details in bass wood with out it chipping off. What ever he uses, he cuts through it like soft butter! Definitely a good book to have in your arsenal.

I love this book it shows step by step how to carve eyes, lips etc. very helpfulbefore you try though be sure to practice with your tools and make sure they are sharp. I have some cheaper tools as we could not afford the better ones yet and they are so hard to work with that I ended up following their techniques but did it all with a knife. Meaning its better to get good tools but either way learn to sharpen them.

Good basic information for the beginer.

Um grande livro sobre talha. Muito bom para se aprender a fazer rostos e olhares em caricaturas de madeira. Varios exemplos para fazer. Recomendo.

A treasure trove, and fountain of information for the serious wood carver. I feel my skills level will increase dramatically.

Excellent book for the price, lots of interesting detailing

Anche se non capisco l’inglese ma le figure sono molto esplicative

Good for beginners, well illustrated