Paul Landacre on Engraving Wood

Paul Landacre is my wood-engraving hero. Even more so now that I’ve come across this article he wrote on the subject in the early 1940’s for a book called The Relief Print Woodcut Wood Engraving & Linoleum Cut.
For anyone interested in this subject you will be inspired by the following paragraphs!
Wood Engraving Technique by Paul [...]

New Virtual Booklet

I have added a new page flip booklet about wood engraving in my library. After a long absence I will be adding content that I hope is useful on this site while balancing my time in the studio.
Hope you enjoy it. You can find it by clicking on this title; wood-engraving
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History of Wood Engraving

Here is an article about wood engraving from 1844, reprinted along with illustrations from a sheet that I purchased at a very cool bookstore in Astoria, Oregon last November.

Box is the wood mostly used by modern wood-engravers; pear-tree, and other wood of a similar grain and fibre, being now only used in executing large cuts [...]

Book Cover Art

I was very pleased to accommodate poet Michael Eden Reynolds’ request for one of my linocuts as the cover art for his new collection of poems called Slant Room. The print that appealed to Michael most was a lino-block called Ornament. This was a cut I made after a wood engraving by Paul Nash, a [...]

Wood Engraving Books

I have a number of out of print, antiquarian books on the subject of wood engraving and other topics that I would like to make available online. Of course the problem is how to do it in a efficient and interesting way.
As an experiment I’m offering John Farleigh’s 1954 book, Engraving on Wood in a [...]

Eric Bergman

One of my wood engraving heroes is Canadian artist Eric Bergman (1893-1958). He lived out his career in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a city dear to my heart.
Although he pursued other forms of printmaking he settled on wood engraving exclusively in 1924. He said the following; “I find wood engraving a help in forming my own style. [...]

Landacre At Auction

This engraving titled Growing Corn by Paul Landacre recently sold at a Swann Galleries auction in New York for $7,200. Measuring 8 3/4 X 4 1/2 inches it was made in 1938. I see it was listed for $250 in an estate sale catalogue from the seventies that I have in my collection of wood [...]

Boxwood

A short discussion of material used for making a quality block for the purpose of making a wood engraving. Boxwood is the wood most preferred for this purpose.

Paul Landacre

I’m extremely fortunate to own this Paul Landacre wood engraving titled “Siesta’ which he made in the 1930’s. The image is quite large for this technique measuring 7.5 by 9 inches – the print quality is stunning.
I was so happy to have discovered him a few years ago, now he ranks as one of [...]

Engraving letters of the alphabet

Engraving letters of the alphabet on the end grain block presents itself as a challenge for the engraver. If the goal requires a faithful rendering of the letter shapes and curves, then very careful planning and cutting will get you there. Practice and more practice continues as a sound way to achieve mastery.
These are [...]

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