Jewelry from salvaged wood

Shawn Taylor of prasseindesignstudio shares her process of making a wooden wrist cuff from salvaged wood.

Book Sculpture

Mark Bernahl is a sculptor and here he shows some books that he has carved with an X-acto Knife.

Inspired by Yeats

Art duo Wyllie O Hagan are inspired to create a relief print and this film by "The Wild Swans at Coole", a poem by William Butler Yeats.

Stitching As Mark Making

In today's video, Maggie Ayres talks about how she uses stitching as mark in her work.


I have featured several of Maggie's videos in the past:
Inspiration from digitally altered images
Artists Access to Art Colleges
Texture Without Colour
Maggie Ayres: textile and mixed media artwork

Printing on fabric

This multi-colour printing process uses four wooden blocks to apply ink to a fabric. It's more like rubber stamping than woodblock printing in which the paper is taken to the woodblock.




3 April 2007

Making a GeeHaw Whimmy Diddle

A simple toy with a curious name.



Can you make the propellor switch directions?

A 17-color Moku Hanga print

Graham Scholes demonstrates the making of a 17-colour print. See Grahams work at woodblockart.ca, where you can also find out about his courses and instructional DVD's.



For more on printmaking, check out Woodblock prints and printing.

What is Art?

A light-hearted look at the meaning of art.



The animation was made by Aardman Animations.