Learn Wood Engraving with Joanne Price! Wood engraving creates fine details with bold woodcut characteristics, perfect for adding illustrations to letterpress cards, artist books, graphic novels, comic books, broadsides, or as stand-alone images. Learn to cut your own original drawings into miniature end-grain hardwood blocks and print them in a limited edition. Instruction will cover…
Join me, Joanne Price, for an intensive week-long Wood Engraving Workshop at Frogman’s Print Workshop! July 5-10, 2021 Wood engraving creates delicate, fine details with bold woodcut characteristics, perfect as stand-alone images, or as illustrations to letterpress holiday cards, artist’s books, or posters. Learn to cut your own original drawings into end-grain hardwood blocks and…
Welcome to a virtual tour of Starpointe Studio! Following the cancellation of the Kentucky Crafted Market event in Lexington, KY March 14 & 15, I decided to set up prints and items as a showcase. You can experience a quiet, slow-paced video perusal on You Tube: https://youtu.be/BQ2fEnFVDdo or just click on the picture above —…
The summer of 2018, I was asked to create a special thank you gift for Capital Campaign contributors in support of Josephine Sculpture Park’s (JSP) recent expansion. The commission involved creating a custom original print of a future vision of JSP and also a custom designed “Thank you” card. While I thought of the card…
Wood Engraving: Historic Letterpress Illustration Join me for a weekend wood engraving workshop at Asheville BookWorks (Asheville, NC) Friday, Dec. 14 (5pm–7:30pm), Saturday Dec. 15 (10–5) and Sunday Dec. 16 (10–5). Wood engraving is your secret weapon for creating detailed images while retaining the bold relief characteristics of woodcut and linoleum. This process is perfect…
There was an epic showdown at the Southern Graphics Council International’s Annual conference, Altered Landscape, in Las Vegas, Nevada at Bally’s Convention Center on April 5, 2018. Metal engraver, James Ehlers and I dueled for engraving supremacy! Graver to graver, magnifiers poised; the game is on. During this lively demonstration we had an unprecedented face off between…
Visit STARPOINTE STUDIO at Huber Winery’s Stella di Luce Art Show: A Celebration of Art & Wine! I’ll have all my greeting cards, prints (both framed and unframed), business card holders, miniature blank books, and more! EXHIBITIONS See the Beneficial Insects on exhibit in Pressing Entomology, Plantory, Lexington KY. March 16 – May 4. Opening…
These past few months have been full of fun adventures and productive studio time. This post focuses on the commissions – the first commissioned by Larkspur Press for “Planting Trees” a poem by Wendell Berry that will be printed as a broadside and sold at Black Swan Books in Lexington, KY. Trees are complicated structures,…
This past weekend Starpointe Studio had a full class of folks to learn wood engraving! It was an intense two days, but was very successful – each participant learned about the material, tools, history and process of wood engraving and then created an engraving of their own design. After each person printed their edition, we…