Links

The following links I feel may be useful to anyone viewing this site.

www. agrellandthorpe.com
Classical woodcarving courses. Ian Agrell teaches a great course in Marin County,CA.
The courses start with carving an acanthus leaf and branch out to your own project.

www.woodcraft.com
This is a great store where you can purchase woodcarving tools. You can order through
the catalog or the website.

www.siempervirens.org
An organization to save the coastal redwood trees in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Resources

I recommend the following books. They have been valuable resources to me.

A Natural History of Western Trees, Donald Culross Peattie
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA

Artist to Artist, Clint Brown
Jackson Creek Press, Corvallis, OR

The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron with Mark Bryan
G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, NY.

The Encylopedia of Wood
Quarto Publishing

Rodin on Art and Artists Conversations with Paul Gsell
Dover Publications Inc., New York, NY.

Artists on Art, Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves
Pantheon Books, New York, NY.