Sandhill Crane Festival Art Entry

Advanced Art scholars have a unique opportunity to pursue artwork of their choice, drawing, painting, printmaking, fashion design, landscape architecture, etc.  A component of artwork created in Advanced Art is exhibiting work or finding ways to use works of art to benefit others.  Several Advanced Art scholars worked hard to create a beautiful drawing as well as a woodcut print for entry into a Sandhill Crane Festival.  These works were accepted in the Festival art competition!!

Fascinating colored pencil drawing on paper.

Woodcuts are a challenging medium to use.  The scholar cut the design of the sandhill crane into a 22"X 12" piece of birch plywood.  Ink was then rolled on the wood using a brayer.  Paper was placed on the wood and the back of the paper was rubbed using a plastic spoon, to transfer the design from wood to paper. 

Sandhill Crane woodcut print

In the tradition of printmaking, other scholars assist in transferring the ink design from wood to paper.