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Taking an inspiration break today, looking at a book in my library, created by two favorites, wood engraver Miriam Macgregor and the Whittington Press. “Diary of an Apple Tree” has 12 portraits, one for each month, of an apple tree. “This is a fragile tree beside its sturdy companion – mute, enduring, yet changing and merging with the seasons. It does not seem fair to be rooted to one small patch of earth, unable to walk about, see round the corner or escape the elements. Perhaps it was this trivial and misguided sentiment that triggered off these engravings.” https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Aa2DygO7P/?igshid=273jc0z30gmx

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As I continue to engrave the surf worn shells, I look at my trove of reference photos taken as I walked the beach in Naples, Florida. I am adding more texture and details to create the sandy backdrop the shells are arranged on. #woodengraversnetwork #woodengraving #societyofwoodengravers https://www.instagram.com/p/B1_gxApAzI8/?igshid=4c1rligvbq8k

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This is Monica Poole's Piddock Architecture, a wood engraving from 1975.

Found on a recent posting by printmaker Angie Lewin. https://allthingsconsidered.co.uk/2017/10/monica-poole-2.html

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Much can be learned by looking closely at an engraved block of a master wood engraver. George Mackley’s engraved block for his print “Foxgloves” is part of the collection at Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Melon University, Pittsburgh, PA. WEN member Tony Drehfal visited the Hunt Botanical’s collection on his journey east to the 2017 WEN Workshop held in New Jersey.

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Just added to my collection of the Studio Publications Series is no. 35, “Bird Portraiture” by artist (and wood engraver) C.F. Tunnicliffe. This book joins no. 2, “Wood-Engraving and Woodcuts” by Clare Leighton, no. 39, “Making a Bookplate” by Mark Severin, and no. 46, “The Way of Wood Engraving” by Dorothea Braby” This vintage book, without it’s dust cover, formerly part of the Akron Art Institute Library, cost $8.90 with postage.

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On a long hiatus from posting, being in a VERY slow internet environment, Tony Drehfal has been engraving. Here seen his current effort, “End-grain”. The print will have no light toned areas, as seen here, only black and white. The block is initially toned with a wash of diluted ink, onto which the image is drawn, there is enough contrast, so what is engraved is seen.

If you need a more immediate wood engraving image “fix”, visit the official Wood Engravers’ Network blog. https://woodengravers.org/blog/

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Light against dark, dark against light, two birds engraved by Thomas Bewick, this a tail-piece for his “A History of British Birds”, Vol. 1 (Land Birds).

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Carl Montford: a catalogue raisonné of the wood engravings, with selected relief prints.

http://www.chatwinbooks.com/shop/carl-montford

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Characters from the WEN Exquisite Corpse Project

The official WEN Blog has a post about the Exquisite Corpse Exchange project, started at the 2016 Annual Summer Workshop in Bryan, Texas.

https://woodengravers.org/characters-exquisite-corpse-project/

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This 12″ x 18″ letterpress poster is printed and soon will be in the mail to folks who contributed to a kickstarter campaign that supported the making of this Wendell Berry documentary. The wonderful image is a wood engraving by WEN member Wesley Bates.

Beautiful.

http://lookandseefilm.com/blog

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That Nature Yet Remembers, an engraving by WEN member Judy Jaidinger, seen at the Kevis House Gallery (Petworth, North Sussex, UK), now exhibiting the Society of Wood Engravers 79th Annual Exhibition.

You can see the rest of this year’s engravings here . . . http://www.kevishouse.com/society-of-wood-engravers-2017.html

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Jim Horton’s engraving work graces the cover of the Augusta Heritage Center’s catalog this year. You can enjoy the Augusta experience and take a Letterpress Printing and Wood Engraving class with Jim (as this is how the WEN Blog moderator first learned to engrave in 2002.)

https://issuu.com/davisandelkinscollege/docs/augusta_catalog_2017

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The image of the lion on the front end papers of the King Penquin Books 1947 edition of Wood Engravings by Thomas Bewick by John Rayner is, itself, worth it’s $5 purchase price. The large cut of the lion was done by Bewick for a menagerie proprietor in 1799. The small book (5″x7″) serves as a nice introduction to Bewick’s wood engravings.

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At work, Michael McGarvey, host to the 2017 Wood Engravers’ Network Summer Workshop at Stockton University in Galloway, NJ, featuring guest artist Gaylord Schanilec.

https://woodengravers.org/2017-annual-summer-workshop-new-jersey/

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When In Doubt, Wash! On the Naming of Cats with engravings by Chris Daunt

Joanne Price has posted a marvelous piece on the official WEN Blog, about her recent acquisition, When in Doubt, Wash, on the naming of cats, printed by Graham Moss at his Incline Press. This work features the writing of David Blamires and wood engravings by WEN-friend Chris Daunt.

https://woodengravers.org/doubt-wash-naming-cats-engravings-chris-daunt/

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Wood Engravings at the Bankside Gallery

https://sequinsandcherryblossom.com/2014/02/05/wood-engravings-at-the-bankside-gallery/

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Wood engraving of a rose, by Rosemary Kilbourn, scanned from a proof sent to Tony Drehfal (editor of Block & Burin, newsletter of the Wood Engravers’ Network) in a recent correspondence.

Rosemary wrote of the engraving . . . “The rose was among my efforts to learn to engrave 'properly' - before I tried to go back to a broader approach - which didn’t at first work out.”

The Porcupine’s Quill offers a wonderful book of Rosemary’s engravings. http://porcupinesquill.ca/bookinfo6.php?index=268