Post #226647 by Basement Kahuna on Thu, Apr 13, 2006 7:32 PM

Conga-no home yet. It will be mainly a "joy" carving for me and pretty expensive, in the 1000-plus range. It will be costly and time consuming to complete. Loki-what I do for the symmetry aspect on a larger relief carving like this is pretty easy-I do a drawing of one side of the panel! I take the full size of the object, scale it to the size of a sheet of drawing paper, and split the scale in half. I draw out from the half line until I have what I want. Then I do a transparency of the drawing, f l i p the transparency, join up the ends, and do another tranparency of the joined piece..then I just put it on an overhead projector and trace it full size onto my wood stock. Viola!