Carving a lattice and acanthus pattern on an emu egg shell

Step 13 Completion of flowers

13. Time to finish the flowers. The center is left alone in the dark outer layer. The petals are carved with a #4 carbide ball burr by first removing the dark layer. Second, strokes are drawn from the edge of the center circle to the edge of the petal through the turquoise layer down to the white layer. We dont need a lot of precision here in the stokes except to avoid cutting to deeply and breaking through. The randomness of varied stokes will more closely match those created by mature.