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FlG 12.20 Thepine and tualtiut heads from behind. The neck of the wałnut piece is closer to reality.

not to carve the spaces between rhem but rathcr to carvc the shapc of every digic in turn. This is a generał rule which can be applied to the carving of arms againsr the body and legs when they are close togethcr. The danger lics in making the spaces so widc chat the forms around them become too thin. What I have given herc are merely guidelines. Obscrvation should come first. The work should be planned with a vie\v co making a figurę within your rangę of knowledge and within what the shape and strcngth of the wood will allow. If profiles are drawn on the wood they should be cut down to gcnrly, as if the carving were a large, angular balloon which as it shrinks becomes rounded and morc detailed. To give sculprural depth always remcmber the top view and, if anyching, exaggerate the way forms rccede or project.

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