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…
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…
Spring Sprint was created after doing some light research on the origins of racing, spurred initially by my admiration of Thomas Bewick’s advertising cuts of the late 1700s and early 1800s. Bewick was a master of miniature vignettes in wood and metal engraving. I love the classic look of them and then started to look…
Join me, Joanne Price, Wood Engravers’ Network President and founder/owner of Starpointe Studio, June 9–June 15, 2019 in Brasstown, North Carolina at the John C. Campbell Folk School for an immersive week of Wood Engraving: Historic Letterpress Illustration. John C. Campbell Folk School has a long tradition of keeping old crafts fresh and alive amid…
I’ve added several new prints in Starpointe’s online shop — original art, original gifts — you can’t get much cooler than that! – A Jackalope in black & white — a woodcut interpretation of the mythological wild-west-beast. – An illustration for Wells Book Arts Center’s fifth chapbook, Negative Compass by Bret Shepard. – And three…
My brand new Jackalope print will be exhibited at the Mid America Print Council Conference (MAPC) in Laramie, Wyoming October 3–6, 2018 as part of the Jackalope Portfolio organized by Oscar Gillespie. The conference theme is “Go West.” In that spirit, Gillespie sold the Jackalope portfolio exchange theme to 23 participants: “The frontier is forever…
I often participate in printmaking’s great tradition of print exchanges. This image is for one such exchange organized by the Wood Engravers’ Network and Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, called Seize the Carp! This long-term collaboration is in the spirit of carpe diem – seize the day – for wood engravers. This block will…
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…