8″ x 10″ Woodblock Print | 9″ x 12″ Japanese Paper
2025
Cedar Waxwings are voracious eaters, and their favorite food is berries. One season, my mother scrambled to pick all the strawberries in the family garden before the Waxwings ate them all! Her story inspired me to create this piece.
8″ x 10″ Woodblock Print | 9″ x 12″ Japanese Paper
Lyell Castonguay, 2025
The concept of new beginnings inspires this woodblock print. Birds burst forth from a streamer trunk framed by a tumultuous sky. The chaotic energy of their flight is contrasted by those foraging on the ground below.
Release: 2024
Size: 12″x9″
The elegant shape of Trumpet Swans inspired me to make this piece. I sketched them hovering over wave patterns while filming a new series of woodblock printmaking instructional videos. Swans and flamingos have also influenced my other artwork, such as my prints Dual Nature and Exodus.
Lyell Castonguay designed, carved, and printed this original artwork. Ink is applied to a carved wooden block and hand-pressed onto Japanese Moonpeach paper. The artist signed and titled the artwork in pencil.
