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It can be difficult to understand what exactly a wood engraving actually is. So here, without more ado, for your greater education (see, I’m always thinking of you!), is a step-by-step, illustrated progression from the original sketch (I deliberately picked a very simple, clear illustration for this purpose) to the finished product at the end: the print.<\/p>\n

Traditionally, wood engraving was done on end-grain blocks of a densely grained wood, such as boxwood. This would be my preferred medium, unfortunately, those wooden blocks, particularly the larger ones, are prohibitively expensive (at least for me!) so I use the newly developed resin blocks. They are far cheaper, so you don’t feel too terrified to make a cut in it in case you ruin the damn’ thing!

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Then, fully informed and newly appreciative, you can go to the wood engravings gallery<\/a> and even purchase a piece for your own home or as the perfect present!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It can be difficult to understand what exactly a wood engraving actually is. So here, without more ado, for your greater education (see, I’m always thinking of you!), is a step-by-step, illustrated progression from the original sketch (I deliberately picked … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":335,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P36zMW-cB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/781\/revisions\/787"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}