Seeing How The Work of Woodcarving Art

Carving is more or less the meaning of carving to form three-dimensional artwork on flat wooden surfaces. Tools used such as chisels, hammers, and carving knives. At first the craftsmen will draw a sketch pattern on a plot of wood first. Furthermore, craftsmen will carve wood according to sketch design by forming some basins until the image becomes embossed resembling relief.

A sculptured voice behind a room measuring 10x3 square meters, Yatiman (58) artist 3-dimensional relief sculpture is seen carving a stick in Tangerang area, Banten.

The man from Mulyoharjo village, Jepara City, Central Java has more than 15 years working in one of the carving workshop in Pagedangan area, Tangerang regency, Banten, to create beautiful artwork.

According to him at that time after graduating from Junior High School, Yatiman did not have enough money to attend the carving school, but his persistent intention to become a wood carving artist burned his spirit to learn carving art independently by direct practice of making sculpture locally.

'' At the beginning I learned to carve if not wrong at the age of 19 years, I tried some basic carvings on tables, benches and others that are not too detailed or only 2 dimensions '' said Yatiman when interviewed Kompas.com on Wednesday (17 / 01/2018).

Yatiman explained that he began to learn 3-dimensional relief carving after he moved to Jakarta and settled in Pasar Seni Jaya Ancol, where he honed his ability to make 3-dimensional relief carvings until finally moved to the existing art workshop in Tangerang.

Currently Yatiman is busy to make 3-dimensional relief wooden artworks with the theme of the village in the country of China in one of the buildings in Tangerang, Banten.

Capitalize three lights for lighting Yatiman (58) conjure up a merbau logs from Papua length of 8.75 meters long and 1.5 meters wide into an engraving art relief media interesting.

He revealed this carving image made according to the request of the buyer.

'' I make it according to the request of the buyer, before even I make a dragon carving is holding the playing cards, and usually the buyer has prepared the wood so I just the carving only '' said Yatiman.

For the cost of carving services with a length of 8.75 meters and 1.5 meters wide Yatiman provide a price of up to Rp 70 million and the time to finish it approximately one year.

'' For 3 dimensional relief carving takes a long time, because it takes patience to make details of the objects that exist in the picture '' Yatiman reveals.

Jepara city is a region that has a lot of wood carving artists, especially in the Village Mulyoharjo.

A number of traditional woodcarving equipment is still maintained by Jepara artists, although nowadays many modern tools to carve wood but according to a number of wooden artists assume that hammer and chisel are embedded in their blood carved art.

In the final process of plastering (varnish) carving artwork is also still using natural ingredients made by Jepara artists themselves, according to him plitur (varnish) made from this natural material is much more durable and does not damage the wood.

In order to make an interesting woodcarving work, a woodcarving artist needs tools such as hammers and chisels, there are more than 32 types of chisels that have their own type and names such as sharpening, streaking, cabbage, and many others.