Showing posts with label carving/whittling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label carving/whittling. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

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Indian Rock Carving of The Pacific Northwest by Edward Meade, Gray's Publishing, Sidney, British Columbia, 1971

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Rankin Inlet





Arlook Arluk, Figure, 1972, grey stone / John Kavin, Figure, 1973, black stone / John Kavin, Figure, 1973, black stone / John Tiktak, Standing Figure, grey stone 

Selections from Rankin Inlet - On Loan to The Winnipeg Art Gallery, from a one page exhibition checklist, no date.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

inua to the inuit



artist unknown (Port Harrison), Miki (Whale Cove), Kavik (Rankin Inlet)
The Eskimo Art Collection of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, no date
thanks abi!

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

My ideas come from up in the air






Woman and Child, Temela Pitsiulak, green stone, ivory, and blacking, 1962 / Son leading father to die, Nakyuraq Akpaliapik, whalebone, and black insets, 1961 / Bird/Man, Iola Abraham Ikkidluak, whalebone, black insets, and graphite, 1968 / Man and woman, artist unknown, ivory, no date / Drum Dancer (detail), Peter Alooloo, whalebone, bone, gutskin, and black insets, 1962

Baffin Island, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1983 (post title, Lypa Pitsulak)

Saturday, March 24, 2012

woodworm

examples of 'woodworm technique'
Woodcarving by Walter Sack, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1972

Monday, February 27, 2012

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toy gun, birch plywood and rosewood, by Jim & Judy Williamson, Asheville, NC
from Fine Woodworking: Design Book Two (1150 photographs of the best work in wood by 1000 craftsmen), The Taunton Press, CT, 1979

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

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more from Sculpture in Wood by Ferelyth & Bill Wills, D,D,&C, Vancouver, 1975

Saturday, February 4, 2012

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from Working Green Wood with PEG by Patrick Spielman, Sterling Publishing, NY, 1980

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from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, 1938, 1950, and 1984 editions, and an old collage-drawing of mine (from here), 2007

Monday, December 5, 2011

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Woman's comb by Luke Iqualla, Gjoa Haven, bone, c. 1974
from Inuit Arts and Crafts, Number 2, December 1984

Thursday, November 17, 2011

twigs and branches

from Whittling Twigs and Branches by Chris Lubkermann, Fox Chapel Publishing, 2002 (expanded edition combining two of the author's self-published books)

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

wood design

Creative Wood Design by Ernst Röttger, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY/Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg, 1960 (first spotted here)

Monday, October 17, 2011

du Noun

from Herve DiRosa: Robots du Noun, Centre Cultural Aragon, Oyonnax, 2009 (french language) Herve DiRosa's collaboration with Bamoun artists, Cameroon.