Entitled The United States of the World's Greatest, the 33" flag is part of DL Warfield's latest project, The American Flag Remixed, a series of flags crafted in a variety of mediums (wood, denim, mercury glass, iron, leather).
Unusually for a 35-year-old contemporary artist, Ms. Taylor's favored medium is wood marquetry, a craft that, like oil painting, flourished during the Renaissance.
PAGE E1 ARTIST REVIVES RENAISSANCE SKILL Unusual for a 35-year-old contemporary artist, Alison Elizabeth Taylor's favored medium is wood marquetry, a craft that, like oil painting, flourished during the Renaissance.
Scaling down from the large cast metal sculptures she had worked her way up to in the 1950's and 60's, Dorothy Dehner (1901-94), torned thethe medium of wood in 1974.
Lloyd McCaffery's medium is wood and his output includes a three-and-a-half-inch 1670 1100 gun ship, a one-and-a-half inch Wells Fargo coach and one-twelfth scale portrait busts.
But above all, it is a song to his medium, the wood itself, its grain, the way it answers to the blade, the conversation to be had with it.
But the highly specialized practice of shaping by lathe has offered more complex possibilities over the last century, and so artists have rediscovered the medium of wood and the wonderful objects that can be made from it by turning, carving, incising, painting and even power-carving with a chain saw.
Objects sculpted from a textured medium, like wood or stone, can be textured using solid texturing.
The pros and cons of using oil as a heating medium in wood treatment are discussed.
Phanerochaete chrysosporium has produced an acid protease in solid medium with wood, under ligninolytic conditions.
