Gallery Show | 8.23.21
Join me for my New Artist Exhibit at the Art & Soul Gallery. Check out my newest works, tour the gallery, and support the arts in Mid-Michigan. This is a great opportunity to buy the art you’ve been looking at online for the past year.
New to the Shop
Peregrine Falcon
Wood Engraving | 4X5″
End grain maple.
Process: Wood engraving is one of the most precise forms of printmaking. The print is made, first, by engraving the reversed design to be printed into a smooth surface of a block of wood (usually boxwood, lemonwood or maple). The block is rolled with ink and printed onto paper. The cuts that were made into the wood therefore come out as white, the remaining top surface which gets inked, as black; the artist is, in effect, drawing with light – with a white mark as opposed to the black mark that comes from a pencil, brush or pen.
Most wood engravings tend to be closely worked and relatively small because the tools used are finely pointed. Because the finesse of wood engraving produces a particularly rich tonal range, wood engravings are usually, but by no means exclusively, black, and white.
The image that results can only be made by this process, just as paintings can only be made with paint or photographs with a camera. Each of those prints is an original – made by that process, not copied.
EJ Kipp 