Woodcarving

Our Woodcarving School offers just the right choice if you…

  • are a novice or advanced carver who would like to learn more.
  • try new things and techniques or deepen your existing knowledge.
  • value personal guidance in small course groups, which meets your current skill level.
  • place value on choosing from 700 models to carve from.
  • want to be instructed step by step by accomplished course instructors.
  • like to let yourself be inspired by like-minded students.
  • are between 6 and 99 years old (100+ upon request ☺).

Our wood-carving course offerings entail the following 4 versions, which we consciously choose to mix with the course formation and groups:

Course Offers

SC
Advanced Course Woodcarving
Advanced and professional

Advanced woodcarving course: realise challenging projects with individual supervision and professional support.
SB
Continuation Course Woodcarving
Intermediate

Intermediate woodcarving course: deepen your technique with templates and models – individually guided according to your personal goals.
SA
Taster/basic carving course
Newcomers

Beginner's woodcarving course: learn the basics and the safe use of carving tools – your first own piece is created step by step.

Special Courses: Carving

SZ
Ranma carving

The art of Japanese architectural relief carving: in this one-week intensive workshop you will learn the traditional Ranma carving with finely worked, multi-layered reliefs.
SR
Woodcut - Printmaking

Woodcut – printmaking: from design to print – single- and multi-colour, different blocks and the “lost form”.
SO
Portrait – Relief

Portrait relief: transfer a portrait photo 1:1 into wood as a bas-relief – without making a model first.
SF4
Professional cutting

Professional roughing-out: fast, efficient work and more confidence when cutting a workpiece from the block.
HF
Free forming of wood
for beginners and advanced

Free design in wood: consciously incorporate grain, sapwood and knots – for beginners and advanced participants.
SF2
Carving the human head and faces
for slightly advanced and advanced carvers

Carving heads and faces: practise working out the head and face using step-by-step templates.
SM
Carving animals
for slightly advanced and advanced carvers

Carving animals: from pets to wildlife – individual motifs with basics of anatomy, posture and movement.
SF1
Chip carving, ornament carving, and letter carving
for beginners and advanced

Chip carving, ornamental carving and lettering: turn boxes, tins and door signs into unique eye-catchers.
SF3
Relief carving

Relief carving: depict three-dimensional motifs on a flat surface while applying the rules of perspective.
SX
Crash course Krampus mask

Crash course Krampus mask: make your own painted Krampus mask from a pre-milled blank in 2½ days.
SJ
Special Course Crib Figures

Intensive nativity-figure carving: beginners start with a nativity animal, advanced participants choose motif and style freely.
SW
Traditional and Mardi Gras Masks
for beginners and advanced

Carve traditional and carnival masks from classic templates and paint them with acrylic or oil colours.
SV
Devil and Krampus Mask Carving

From block to finished mask: rough with the chainsaw, fine with carving tools – including painting and tips for finishing.
SY
Sharpening carving tools

Weekend practical workshop: the instructor shows you the techniques of hand and machine sharpening – the focus is on practical application on your own carving tools.

Interactive Carving Courses-Overview Calendar

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Carving or Sculpting?

In our woodcarving classes we provide the sound skills of wood handicraft in order to be able to reproduce given references and models utilizing the carving chisels. The main focus of our woodsculpting courses is on the development and formulating ones own ideas and drafts, which will then be made into real wooden objects.

Course Offers

Advanced Course Woodcarving Continuation Course Woodcarving Taster/basic carving course

Special Courses

Ranma carving Woodcut - Printmaking Portrait – Relief Professional cutting Free forming of wood Carving the human head and faces Carving animals Chip carving, ornament carving, and letter carving Relief carving Crash course Krampus mask Special Course Crib Figures Traditional and Mardi Gras Masks Devil and Krampus Mask Carving Sharpening carving tools

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