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A Wood Engraving - from sketch to print

Stage: Overview

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This make has 4 stages; Overview, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 (Print All These Stages →) and has been rated by the author as a intermediate-ability project.

Author	spoonergregory
Process	4 stages
Difficulty level	intermediate
Available to buy	0

About this Make

Wood engraving is a relief printmaking technique that uses blocks of end-grain wood (as opposed to woodcuts, which use the cross-grain of wood) to create finely detailed prints.

These instructions will show you how to make a simple black and white engraving and print it by hand.

Materials required

An end-grain wood block (boxwood, maple, lemonwood, holly or pear for example)

Engraving tools (a spitsticker, a graver, a tint tool)

A leather sandbag (to rest the block on whilst engraving)

Relief printmaking ink (oil or water based)

A roller

Spatula (for spreading ink)

A sheet of glass or plastic

Smooth white paper (smooth paper takes the impression of the block better than textured paper)

A teaspoon

Drawing ink

Spray fixative (optional)

All of these materials and tools are available from good art shops and online suppliers.

Keywords

art ink print printmaking wood engraving

It's Real!

This Make relates to Edgefield by spoonergregory

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13 Comments

hilarygjart said:

Soo intricate, very impressed!

DaisiesAreOurSilver said:

Doing some wood engraving was one of the very few things I really enjoyed in my foundation year (which was back when I think Victoria was still queen.) Your well made tutorial has quite inspired me to think about it again. What fun! x

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kittylinnington said:

Great thankyou! Been wondering how to do this..so now will give it a go : )

harandaa said:

What a great summary - I want to give this a go now. Brilliant.

LinsArt said:

I saw some wood engraving prints in a gallery recently & wondered if they were similar to lino prints [which I have done]. Very interesting, thanks, I think I shall have to try it out.