Thread: Engraving, again !

Wonderful work. I got the admin & mods to start a subforum for printing, this is the first thing I've seen since then.

I have 6-8 wood cuts just about ready for printing, hope to do them in the new year.
My inspiration is the work of Maria Arango.

Oh nice ! I've done quite a bit of side grain block printing years ago but never got round to what I really fancied - the fineness possible in end-grain !
You've done an excellent job with this one both in design & execution.

Oh, yep... didn't pay attention there was a subforum for this !
I just come back from a christmas fair where I met a woodturner for the 2nd year. he was demonstrating and he gave me his offcuts from the lathe... some yew. It will make pretty good wood blocks for engraving.

Thanks for comment, guys !

RV, I hope to see this. Thank you to let me discover the work of Maria Arango.

If you're interested in wood engraving I still think there's none better than Thomas Bewick to study.

Mike: Maybe nit-picking here but we refer to end-grain carving and printing as "engraving".
I believe the craft dates back to the earliest days of printing on paper. Some great painters got their start apprenticed to wood engravers in printing/publishing houses.
The American, Winslow Homer is an example. No doubt the same in Britain.

Mike: Thanks. Quick Google of Bewick = pioneer & master!

Most anything else in side grain is a "wood block print" or simply a "wood-cut".
Maria Arango uses the term "wood-cut." I can follow that!

Johan: You're welcome. Her 1,000 Wood Cuts is an ambitious undertaking. If it's still there, her descriptions of process are harder and harder to find. I study her prints to learn how to break up large blocks of color with spaced lines/grooves.

I don't believe that I do a good enough job with the tools that I have on the carvings that I do.
Reluctant to move off in a new direction (engraving) founded solely in curiosity.

Wonderful work