Upland Game Bird Carving

This book displays all the talent and creativity of Rosalyn Daisey and makes it available to other carvers. Beginning with accurately detailed plans, the techniques of carving, texturing, painting and mounting these beautiful sculptures are explained with exquisite photographs and drawings.

The book includes five carving projects. The male mourning dove is a particularly fun project, not only because the bird has opened wings but also because it is lighted from within the branch of the piece. Its base is a sculpted shadow of the bird in flight. A perched dove, a female, is one of Rosalyn's favorites because of the elegance of the dove itself. The complexity of the female woodcock project is balanced with the simplistic cuteness of the chick project. And the challenging bobwhite quail is intriguing because of its interesting feather patterns.

Hardcover, 240 pages, 1997.