As your wood carving skills advance you will be able to expand the scope of what you can accomplish will those skills. The are a variety of materials, methods, and accessories that you can use to increase you carving horizons.
There are numerous creative ways to show off your carving talents, but traditional and not. By exploring different ideas and style you will discover how you will express yourself in you carvings.
Wood Burning (Pyrography) can be use on wood carving to enhance there look, or as an art form on its own. Learning was can be done will simple wood burnings tools can help guide your carvings.
Learning wood burning (Pyrography) will not only help will the finished look of your carving, it also open the door for working in a new medium. Pyrography can be done both on wood and a variety of other materials.
If you only whittle once in a while when you're bored you won't need to be added accessories to your tool collection, but if you intend to carve seriously there are a number of accessories you need to consider.
No Pumpkins are not wood, but they this is one time people you don't
know will come to your home a see something you have carved. Pumpkin
Carving can be done in a traditional Halloween style, or a more modern
style can be used. Power tools, especially the Dremel have recently be
used to quickly make intricate carving which can show off you talents,
at least for a short while.
