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Carving Resources For People Who Hate Flowers?

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OK, so I dont really hate flowers, but I'm definitely on that path. I would like to try my hand at carving. I've never done any and my head is full of dragons and science fiction images, viking sagas and celtic patterns, but every time I look at a tutorial it's telling me how to carve a flower. Is there no way I can learn to carve without having to carve hundreds of flowers? I'm not being glib here, seriously, floral designs leave me utterly cold.

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I can't point you to specifics but you might want to look at figure carving instead of western carving. Also, I find that some of the older ornamentation like shields and crests are more interesting than stupid flowers, even though they might have vines and stuff in them. I believe that Stohlman and Burnett each have books addressing figure carving.

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It doesn't help with carving lessons (I agree look at figure carving instead of western carving), but as a fellow flower hater I have found lots of fun patterns to trace and practice techniques with in tattoo books.  Some of the adult coloring books also have some cool pattern ideas.   The process and techniques are the same as floral carving you just have to think a little outside the box to find the right stamp for the texture you want.    I find that the biggest draw back to this is once you start drawing your own patterns finding a flow with a repeating pattern to fit a space is harder with figure images than floral ones.  

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So true Thor, Great tip

I have found in the last year the search from google images list photos, yet to view them it is a pinterest pic and so gets a closing black screen almost covering totally.

So just signed up this week, I'm so late! but wow its worth it.

Good Friday everyone

Floyd

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