title: Carving the Green-Wing Teal: Quick Tips for Hen and Drake (Schiffer Book for Carvers)
author: Dr Jeffrey Moore
description: Jeff Moore has been carving and painting for almost thirty years. He teaches his techniques in six weekly classes and now he passes them along to you.
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  The Physiognomy
  Book One of the Well-Built City Trilogy
  Jeffrey Ford
  
  For Lynn, Jackson, and Derek:
  My guides to the Earthly Paradise
  
  Introduction to the New Edition of the
  Well-Built City Trilogy
  Earlier in the summer (1996) in which I finally began writing The
  Physiognomy, I’d done a series of drawings with black magic marker—
  woodcut-looking things with sections that swirled and erupted into faces
  and then disintegrated back into mere design. In all, I must have done thirty
  or forty of these pieces, each of which took quite a bit of time to first draw
  and then to color in the appropriate spaces. The process was like some kind
  of weird therapy, and all the while I performed these simple techniques, I
  daydreamed about a novel I’d wanted to write for some time.
  Back when I was in the Ph.D. program at Temple University, writing a
  dissertation on the late