What are woodcarving chisels used for?
What are woodcarving chisels used for? |
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As their name suggests, woodcarving chisels are used to carve wood. Carving is the process of shaping a material by removing small amounts of material from the whole until a pattern, design or image is formed. | |||
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Woodcarving chisels are used chiefly in two areas of woodcarving: sculpture and relief carving. | |||
Relief carving |
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Relief carving is a type of woodcarving whereby figures, designs, and images are carved into a flat panel of wood. | |||
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The design only projects slightly from the panel of wood yet the carving is done in such a way that the images seem to rise up out of the wood. There are four types of relief carving, each distinguished by the depth to which the images are cut: low relief, bas relief, high relief, and pierced relief. | |||
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Low reliefLow relief carving is typically under 1.2cm (1/2″) in depth. |
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Bas reliefBas relief carving is typically between 1.2 and 5cm (1/2″ and 2″) in depth. |
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High reliefHigh relief carving is typically over 5cm (2″) in depth. |
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Pierced reliefPierced relief carving is when holes are carved right through the wood. |
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Sculpture |
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Sculpture is a type of three-dimensional art-form that works in a visual platform. Traditionally in sculpture, material is either taken away from (carving), or added to (modelling) a main body of material. | |||
