Wood carving tutorials · step by step
Learn form the way a sculptor does: start in foam or softwood, without fear of mistakes. Twenty-one projects, organized by how long they take — from a short session to a project spread over several sittings.
Twenty-one projects in total: seven complete and free, ready to carve today — and fourteen more, with tracing pattern, technical diagram, and the full step-by-step, in the book. Each teaches a fundamental — volume, surface, void, structure — and builds on the last.
Under two hours. Minimal tools, a dignified result from the very first piece.
Between two and four hours. Two-piece compositions, reading the grain, and the first interior opening.
A pair of slender, stylized silhouettes, mounted on a rod at different heights.…
A fluid vertical form with a single elegant opening in its interior.…
More than four hours, almost always over several sessions. Structure, assembly, and fine detail.
Revisits the ovoid from the first exercises, but this time the interior void holds a second piece.…
A deep relief imitating the fold of cloth — the most demanding exercise in reading light and shadow.…
A continuous surface that twists around its own vertical axis.…
Combines the interior opening and the faceted relief into one piece — the largest format in the whole route.…
Fourteen more projects — from an afternoon up to several sessions — with a tracing pattern, technical diagram, and the complete step-by-step, gathered in The Path of Form. Each with its preview on the site — the full illustrated step-by-step arrives with the handbook.
The book is in the works — patterns, reference renders, and the technical sheet for all 21 pieces in the route.
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Level 1 · Project
Easy · a repeated pattern
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Short guides, sorted by what you want to learn.
The workshop's rehearsal: why we begin in foam, and the fundamental forms to know before touching wood.
Which knife to buy, how to keep it, and why the edge is everything.
Knife carving, and the leap to functional pieces.
How to cut away from your body and work without scares.
Where the wood comes from, how to read the grain, and why no trees are felled.
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The Habanaescultura kit
This is no factory kit. A real workshop assembles it, in the voice of a Cuban sculptor with over thirty years at the craft. Here form is studied in foam and honored in reclaimed wood.
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