Wood Engraving: How to Do It
A comprehensive, beautifully illustrated and practical wood engraving manual.

Wood Engraving is an easily-followed, practical manual on wood engraving for beginners. Learn the processes of printing and engraving through clear explanations and use the lists of material requirements to help you get started. In this third, revised edition, discover up-to-date technique variations and all the tips and methods that the author has found helpful in 50 years as a practitioner.

Since, or so he says, how to do it cannot be separated from why you are doing it and what it is you think you are doing, the book also touches on the relation of wood engraving to art more generally, and is a companion not only to beginning but also to continuing in this historic art. A beautiful object in its own right and written by a master in the field, this book is a must have if you treasure fine wood engraving and the contribution Simon Brett has made to it.

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Wood Engraving: How to Do It
A comprehensive, beautifully illustrated and practical wood engraving manual.

Wood Engraving is an easily-followed, practical manual on wood engraving for beginners. Learn the processes of printing and engraving through clear explanations and use the lists of material requirements to help you get started. In this third, revised edition, discover up-to-date technique variations and all the tips and methods that the author has found helpful in 50 years as a practitioner.

Since, or so he says, how to do it cannot be separated from why you are doing it and what it is you think you are doing, the book also touches on the relation of wood engraving to art more generally, and is a companion not only to beginning but also to continuing in this historic art. A beautiful object in its own right and written by a master in the field, this book is a must have if you treasure fine wood engraving and the contribution Simon Brett has made to it.

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Wood Engraving: How to Do It

Wood Engraving: How to Do It

by Simon Brett
Wood Engraving: How to Do It

Wood Engraving: How to Do It

by Simon Brett

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A comprehensive, beautifully illustrated and practical wood engraving manual.

Wood Engraving is an easily-followed, practical manual on wood engraving for beginners. Learn the processes of printing and engraving through clear explanations and use the lists of material requirements to help you get started. In this third, revised edition, discover up-to-date technique variations and all the tips and methods that the author has found helpful in 50 years as a practitioner.

Since, or so he says, how to do it cannot be separated from why you are doing it and what it is you think you are doing, the book also touches on the relation of wood engraving to art more generally, and is a companion not only to beginning but also to continuing in this historic art. A beautiful object in its own right and written by a master in the field, this book is a must have if you treasure fine wood engraving and the contribution Simon Brett has made to it.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781912217502
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 09/18/2018
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 6.60(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Simon Brett, chairman of the Society of Wood Engravers, is an artist, printmaker and prize winning book illustrator. He taught for 18 years, from 1970 to 1989, and has written widely on the history and practice of wood engraving, editing the Engravers handbooks for the Society of Wood Engravers and the Contemporary Wood Engravers series for Primrose Hill Press, as well as curating major exhibitions for the Society and for the British Council.

Table of Contents

The Arrangement of the Book

Introduction: Basic Principles

THE HAND

The Act of Printing

Basic printing

Ink

Pressure

Better Printing

Make-ready

Design and printing – and three case histories

Inspecting the print – troubleshooting

Lowering

The Act of Engraving

Holding the tool

First cuts

Sampler blocks

Good habits

Not addition but subtraction

THE MIND

The Means to Order

Designing for Engraving

Preparing a design

Putting the design on the block

Darkening the block

Transferring the design

Drawing the design on the wood

A personal choice

Designing through engraving

Choices – Shapes, surfaces and forms

Choices – Some other examples

Choices – Marks

Choices – Edges

Proofing and re-engraving

The pains to know

SETTING UP

Blocks

Engraving tools

The choice and care of tools

Other engraving equipment

Paper

Ink

Rollers

Presses

Cleaning agents

Space

Self-help

Contacts

Suppliers

A beginner's shopping list

MATTERS ARISING

Index

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