Playful Woodworking: Create Wooden Art Toys
Preparing for your project
A course by Popoke Brasil , Carpentry Workshop
About the video: Preparing for your project
Overview
“In this class, you will see how to select the woods for your project based on your technical design and you will know some tools.”
In this video lesson Popoke Brasil addresses the topic: Preparing for your project, which is part of the Domestika online course: Playful Woodworking: Create Wooden Art Toys. Bring unique characters to life by learning carpentry techniques to create your own wooden sculpture.
Partial transcription of the video
“Prepping for your Project In this lesson, we'll choose the wood we'll use in our character, thinking about the colors and our technical drawing. First thing to do is to get the wood you have, whatever you selected. You can find them in dump boxes, woodworking supply stores... I have some wood here that I selected for our robot. We have a variety here. We have peroba, this is salvaged wood, it has little holes. I cleaned it up. I also have Brazilian walnut. And even a piece of a chair. Look how cool. I found a cylinder ready to be used. This can help us a lot in this process, finding already...”
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Course summary for: Playful Woodworking: Create Wooden Art Toys
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Category
Craft, Design -
Areas
Art Toys, Character Design, Sculpture, Toy Design, Woodworking

Popoke Brasil
A course by Popoke Brasil
Artists Eduardo Castanheira and Natália Rocha, founders of the Popoke Brasil workshop, combine art and design to give life to characters from another world through playful carpentry. Their pieces stay true to the colors, tones, and history of the wood they are crafted from, seeking to add a bit of sunshine and whimsy back into the world.
Popoke Brasil's art toys are on show in decor and design boutiques across Brazil and can also be viewed on the creative couple's Instagram account.
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