Simple Dogwood Flower

This Dogwood Flower is another simple project, but with a little more detail than the Birch leaf.

Multiple petals require some familiarity with undercuts and stopcuts. This was a fun little project. I love adding these simple little dogwood-type flowers to larger portrait carvings to create whimsical characters.

Cottonwood bark is the medium for this project, but Basswood, Butternut, Birch, or Mahogany can also be used.

Tools Used:

• #4 -25mm (gouge)

• #11 -4mm (veiner)

• #9 -6mm (gouge)

• #9 -16mm (gouge)

• #47 -4mm (v-tool)

• 1-1.25” bench or detail knife

• 220 and 320 grit sandpaper