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Creative Woodworks & Crafts Magazine Covers
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 |  | | | July 2010 | This is a piece made by Les Moore from a pattern I created for him of his son's dog. This article appeared in the Reader's Gallery of Creative Woodworks & Crafts Magazine. | |
ScrollSaw Woodworking & Crafts Magazine
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 |  | | | These are just a few of my published works in Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts, Creative Woodworks & Crafts magazines. | Centerfold March 2008 Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Magazine. | |
Artist Statement
“When I create an intarsia for someone, I strive to create something meaningful and personal to them. Whether a portrait of a beloved pet or a landscape of someplace that holds a special meaning, these custom pieces challenge me to bring to life in wood, a part of their life that is important to them. This, I find is the most rewarding aspect of what I do. When my art work brings happiness to someone - it is the best reason I can think of to create it.”
Artist Bio
Janette Square is an accomplished, internationally recognized intarsia artist who has lived in Eugene, Oregon since 1995. She began using wood as an artistic medium around 1999. The natural color and grain of wood is the perfect medium for creating colorful and realistic pieces based on nature. She has a unique gift of being able to create, from a photograph - first a pattern, then a finished piece of intarsia artwork. Custom pieces, including pet portraits are her specialty. She has created custom pieces for people worldwide. Self taught, Janette has the ability to capture an animal’s personality and expression in wood. While some of her pieces are made from commercially available patterns, many are her own designs.
She is a regular contributor to both international scroll saw magazines, Creative Woodworks & Crafts as well as Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts. Several of her pieces have been chosen to be featured on their covers as well. Janette is also a moderator for an Intarsia Yahoo group as well as Scroll Saw Woodworking magazine’s online forum for scroll saw artists. She enjoys encouraging others and teaching them by sharing her expertise within the groups, giving others confidence and improving their own skills.
In 2006, one of her custom pieces received both “Best In Show” and “People’s Choice” awards at the Rhododendron Festival’s annual art show in Florence, Oregon. The same piece was selected by Woodcraft Magazine in March of 2007 from over 300 entries for their intarsia contest. In 2005, Janette received an honorable mention in Scroll Saw Wood-working & Crafts Magazine’s design contest as well as being a finalist in the 2008 event. In 2004, Janette was interviewed by KVAL news and demonstrated her work for a segment of the newscast. She is recognized as one of the premier Intarsia Artists by her peers.
Starting with a pattern, Janette selects the types of woods she will use in a project. The color and grain selection of the wood is an important first step. Each piece is first cut out with a scroll saw, then shaped and sanded utilizing several types of sanding and carving tools depending on the desired results. Once each piece has been shaped, they are all glued together and several coats of a clear satin finish is applied to protect and enhance the natural colors of the wood. No stains are ever used and the only paint used is a highlight dot in the eye of her animals. This highlight brings the piece to life. The project is then glued to a backing for added strength. Each finished project is numbered and signed by the artist. She also lists the woods used to create the piece on the back.
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Finalist in the 2008 Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Magazine's design contest
March 2007
I was honored to be selected the March winner in Woodcraft's monthly contest. March was Intarsia month and over 300 submissions were received. They chose my piece "Tailgate Party" as their winner. This was the custom piece I created of the 3 Lhasa Apso Dogs.
Thank you Woodcraft!
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| | I wanted to thank Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Magazine for publishing my first "how-to" article in their Spring 2007 issue of the magazine. It was a 5 page spread! For more info on their great magazine, please go to their website at www.scrollsawer.com
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| Summer 2006 Scroll Saw Workshop Magazine - 2005 Design Contest Results | | | I would like to thank the folks at Scroll Saw Workshop magazine for thinking enough of my work to include it in their list of winners for their design contest. Below is the article that is in the Summer 2006 issue of Scroll Saw Workshop magazine. If you would like to check them out, their website is: www.ScrollSawer.com | |
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Text - KVAL TV news article December 1, 2004
Wood Work
By Katie Harlan
North Eugene - Janette Square makes wood working look easy. She makes and sells custom wood Intarsia portraits.
The ancient, Italian wood working process has become her passion. "About four years ago, I bought a book and followed the step by step and the two projects the book had and kinda went from there", Janette Square, artist.
Her latest creation is Buddy, the portrait of a golden retriever from Salem.
To start, Square enlarged a family photo of Buddy. Then sketched it onto clear plastic and that's when the wood work began. For Buddy, Janette Square used seventy-one pieces of different wood that took over forty hours to complete.
Square explains. "The pattern itself from the photograph took about five hours and the cutting it out took eighteen. Fifteen for sanding and three or four more for finish work."
All this work is done in a wood shop in the garage of her home. And so far, Square says her neighbors aren't complaining about the noise. "My neighbor actually comes over and pokes her head in quite a bit to see what I'm working on because she loves cats."
Square has only done animals but hopes to expand her business. But now with new equipment, Square's ready to take on more clients. "When I first started I bought a little scroll saw a cheap one and that did pretty well for a couple years and last Christmas I treated myself to a real one as I call it."
And with it, she creates real art everyone can enjoy. The portraits start at four hundred dollars and go up from there.
EXTERNAL LINKSCustom Wood Intarsia Portrait of Your Pet http://www.square-designs.com/
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