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05/03/2022

It takes time to “get” an art topic or practice that’s so complex and offers so much variation. Here’s a short post to help you develop your eye for some common mistakes you might see in ovoids and split U forms (mid-coast style) as beginners start to learn the symmetry of the art.

https://ravenpublishing.com/blogs/pacific-northwest-native-american-art/common-beginner-mistakes-in-pacific-northwest-coast-art-ovoids-and-u-shapes

Beginners in Pacific Northwest Coast Art styles often overlook one basic principle. In this blog, you'll learn what that principle is and you'll see some common beginner examples of ovoid and U shape mistakes.

04/09/2022

Have you seen some of our customers’ artwork? It’s amazing to see what people create when they’re empowered with the knowledge and the resources.

Raven Publishing customers share their Northwest Coast Art-style artwork From wood carvings and painted paddles to quilting and glasswork, our customers’ artwork spans many different mediums! Over the years, we’ve seen artists, art students, and craftspeople use our ‘Learning By’ Series of b...

03/04/2022

Before we did a major overhaul of Raven Publishing’s website, the following excerpt was on our homepage. It shows our endless gratitude to and acknowledgement of our family and friends and the First Nations artists and colleagues who informed the knowledge and designs in our books about PNW Coast art. Check it out here:

An excerpt from one of our first books Learning by Designing: Pacific Northwest Coast Native Indian Art, Volume 1. Before we did a major overhaul of Raven Publishing’s website, the following excerpt was on our homepage. It was there for a reason. This excerpt shows our endless gratitude to and ack...

03/03/2022

Can you identify the basic building blocks in Pacific Northwest Art? Use this guide to understand how artists working in this style use and modify fundamental formline art principles, elements, and shapes to create their West Coast style art pieces.

When you look at Pacific Northwest Coast formline art, can you identify the basic building blocks the artist used? After reading this, you should be able to look at Native American art of the Pacific Northwest coast and notice how the artist used and modified fundamental formline art principles, ele...

09/07/2021

Do you have a copy of our best seller?

"Learning by Designing, Volume 1" is a reference and instruction manual with a detailed, thoroughly analyzed, well-supported comparison of four Pacific Northwest Coast First Nations art styles.

Topics cover design formline, ovoids, U shapes, S shapes, heads, body parts, and design formation, as well as a step-by-step "how to draw section." It includes 800 clear, detailed illustrations accompanied by straightforward copy.

By Jim Gilbert and Karin Clark Learn Pacific Northwest Coast native formline art, step-by-step, with this comprehensive guidebook, including "how to draw" sections. Plan out traditional formline drawings and create meaningful, original designs. Save hours of researching online with well-researched c...

09/07/2021

"Learning by Designing Volume 2" (a companion to Volume 1) puts Pacific Northwest Coast art into deeper cultural context.

The book includes indigenous philosophy, knowledge, and skills foundation, a code of ethics, and interviews with First Nations community members Ruth Cook, George Cook, Nella Nelson, and Wedlidi Speck, as well as some aspects of historical context and a description of the Potlatch.

Volume 2 includes a full colour, 16-page creation story "In the Beginning there was the First World." Additional topics include contemporary design evolution with 50 examples, 20 designs to draw and pain, and a Quick Reference Chart containing over 100 designs!

By Jim Gilbert and Karin Clark Learn by designing Pacific Northwest Coast native formline art with this comprehensive guide book (a companion book to Volume 1). Plan out traditional formline drawings and create meaningful, original designs. Save hours of researching online with well-researched cultu...

09/06/2021

"Learning by Doing" is a great book for teachers, artists, students, collectors and anyone interested in Pacific Northwest Coast Indigenous art and culture.

The book includes step-by-step instructions and 15 educationally based concepts arranged from simple to complex with each step building on the previous. You'll find over 300 black and white detailed illustrations and 32 photos to enhance and clarify the straightforward instructions.

Click the link below for a book preview and the full table of contents!

By Karin Clark and Jim Gilbert Learn Pacific Northwest Coast formline art with step-by-step instructions on how to draw, design, paint and carve in the PNW art style. Plan out traditional formline drawings and create meaningful, original designs. Save hours of researching online with well-researched...

09/06/2021

Written by Nella Nelson and illustrated by Karin Clark, this book is about a young girl's experience with her family's p`asa (Potlach).

The Potlatch (traditional First Nations business) and the Winter Ceremonies are the vehicles for cultural connections all along the Coast. Our story-teller, Gana, explains, “My family has been planning this p`asa (Potlatch) for years and saving to buy gifts for our guests. In some ways, the p`asa is a lot like a party but instead of people bringing us gifts, we give gifts to everyone who comes. There are songs, dances, plays, and stories. But also, there are marriages, funerals, naming ceremonies, birth announcements, re-telling of our histories, reminders of our culture, wearing the outfits that our ancestors wore, showing and giving away blankets, large pieces of copper, tools, canoes, jewellery, masks, food, toys and other gifts. The family asks everyone who comes to remember everything they saw. That’s what the gifts are for. They are a kind of payment to remember. This custom comes from a time when my people didn’t write things down to remember them. People had very good memories. They told important facts and stories to their kids and their kid’s kids. Nowadays, I can read facts and stories in books, see them on DVD and movies, as well as hearing about them from my elders."

Written by Nella Nelson Illustrated by Karin Clark Description Along the Pacific Northwest Coast, from Alaska through British Columbia to Washington, there are several related, yet diverse, aboriginal cultures (First Nations). Prior to contact with Europeans, these peoples had developed complex soci...

09/05/2021

Are you a marquetry maker? Would you like to try?

This beautiful book serves as a stunning introduction to people interested in using marquetry, also called painting with wood veneers, to recreate Pacific Northwest Coast Native Indian art style designs.

Those who know of this art form may be interested in re-creating their designs using wood veneers. Readers will learn about the skills and techniques of marquetry using the “window method” and cutting wood veneers with a knife. Pacific Northwest Coast Native Art in Marquetry demonstrates how marquetry (whether using the saw or knife for cutting veneers) can be adaptable to any subject in addition to Pacific Northwest Coast Native art. Cutting exercises are included, as well as step-by-step instructions to complete the Blue Hummingbird picture in the Nuu-chah-nulth nation’s style. Also included are four other Northwest Coast Native art Designs by Jim Gilbert and directions about how to reproduce them in marquetry.

By Paul R. Dean Description This beautiful book serves as a stunning introduction to people interested in using marquetry, also called painting with wood veneers, to recreate Pacific Northwest Coast Native Indian art style designs. Those who know of this art form may be interested in re-creating the...

09/05/2021

This full-colour 16-page booklet is a beautifully illustrated Pacific Northwest Coast creation story with 20 designs from the four major PNWC art style areas.

"In the Beginning there was the First World" $10.00

https://ravenpublishing.com/collections/all/products/in-the-beginning-there-was-the-first-world

By Jim Gilbert, Ron Stacy, and Wedlidi Speck Description This full-colour 16-page booklet is included in our Learning by Designing, Volume 2 book. It has a beautifully illustrated Pacific Northwest Coast creation story and 20 designs from the four major Native Indian art style areas. Because of the....

09/04/2021

What am I seeing?

Now available in French, German, and Spanish, this guide book, designed to give you a glimpse of Pacific Northwest Coast aboriginal art, will give you a deeper understanding about today’s vibrant, complex aboriginal PNWC Indigenous cultures.

Three sections show you where to look to identify many of the things you will see—from three-dimensional objects like bentwood boxes, ceremonial houses, masks and canoes, to crest designs, to the main design elements in Pacific Northwest Coast aboriginal art.

You'll find 112 colour illustrations and photos, including 10 well-known objects and 19 crest designs from the Pacific Northwest Coast along with meanings and stories.

By Karin Clark Description Now available in French, German, and Spanish, this guide book, designed to give you a glimpse of Pacific Northwest Coast aboriginal art, will give you a deeper understanding and whet your appetite for learning more about today’s vibrant, complex aboriginal cultures. Thre...

09/04/2021

Sehen Und Verstehen [German Edition]

Dieses Buch gibt einen Einblick in die Vielfalt der Kunstformen der pazifischen Nordwestküstenindianer. Es soll zum Verständnis und Respekt für die hochentwickelten und auch heute noch vitalen Kulturen führen. In den Hauptteilen des Buches wird auf die Bedeutungen der vielfältigen Figuren, Formen und Muster, welche auf Gebrauchsgegenständen, an Stammeshäusern, Kanus, Masken, Familienwappen und Totempfählen zu sehen sind, hingewiesen.

By Karin Clark Description 10 Abbildungen von Bekanten Gebrauchsgegenstaenden und 19 Wappen-Zeichnungen der Pazifischen Nordwestkuesten-Indianer mit Erklaerungen zu ihren Bedeutungen und ueberlieferten Legenden. Beschreibungen von 7 traditionellen Musterteilen und ihren verschiedenen Variationen. 11...

09/04/2021

¿Qué estoy viendo? [Spanish Edition]

Este libro guia, diseñado a darte una vision del arte aboriginal de la Costa Pacifica Noroeste, te va a dar una vision más profunda y moja tu apetito para aprender más ascerca de las culturas aboriginals vibrantes y complejas de hoy. Tres secciónes te enseñan donde ver para identificar muchas de las cosas que veras – de los objetos tridimencionales como cajas de madera doblada, casas de ceremonias, máscaras y canoas, a diseños crestos, a los diseños de elementos pricipales en el arte aboriginal de la Costa Pacifica Noroeste.

By Karin Clark Description Este libro guia, diseñado a darte una vision del arte aboriginal de la Costa Pacifica Noroeste, te va a dar una vision más profunda y moja tu apetito para aprender más ascerca de las culturas aboriginals vibrantes y complejas de hoy. Tres secciónes te enseñan donde ve...

09/03/2021

Qu'est-ce que je vois? [French Edition)

Ce guide a été écrit pour donner un aperçu de l’art autochtone de la côte nord-ouest du Pacifique. Il cherche à mieux faire comprendre et connaître cette culture vibrante et complexe qui est celle des Premiéres Nations d’aujourd’hui. L’ouvrage est divisé en trois sections facilitant la recherche et l’identification des objets que vous voyet, soit des objets tridimensionnels tells les boîtes cintrées, les maisons de cérémonie, les masques et les canots, ainsi que les motifs, les emblems et les principaux éléments décoratifs de l’art autochtone du nord-ouest du Pacifique.

By Karin Clark Description Ce guide a été écrit pour donner un aperçu de l’art autochtone de la côte nord-ouest du Pacifique. Il cherche à mieux faire comprendre et connaître cette culture vibrante et complexe qui est celle des Premiéres Nations d’aujourd’hui. L’ouvrage est divisé e...

09/02/2021

Do you love cross-stitch? This book contains three full-sized colour cross-stitch patterns of Thunderbirds in west, mid, and north coast art styles.

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"Cross Stitch Patterns Based on Pacific Northwest Coast Native Indian Art Styles: Book 1 Thunderbirds" $14.95

By Jim Gilbert and Sheron Ruffel Description The first in a series, this book contains the three full-size colour cross-stitch patterns from the West, Mid, and North Coast shown on the front cover. Original designs by Jim Gilbert, adapted for cross stitch by Sheron Ruffell. Patterns are full size an...

09/02/2021

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