It is an old Scandinavian style of carving that had pretty much died but was revived by an American carver Harley Refsal and championed by Gene Messer.
Gene is a well known member of the www.woodcarvingillustrated.com forum and has amazing tutorials on this style of carving on YouTube (he is "Whittler0507" - look him up!).
Flat plane carving deals more with flat cuts that may not have as much detail, but more than make up for it in character.
The carving at left is from Gene's YouTube tutorial.
The rest are my designs. Santa (Mrs Claus is not painted yet), a dude I named "Tipsy" for obvious reasons, and finally a Traffic Cop who has a face that causes no need for a whistle.
Hope you enjoy them and thanks for stopping in!
