2023 is starting out well with some exciting experiments I made last fall. Many of my experiments are played out in print exchanges – a fun print tradition where a theme is set and each artist gets one of each participant’s prints. I participated in three exchanges this fall. One for seed packets, one for…
The Ruling Machine: Wood Engraving’s Secret Weapon (live online) Monday October 25, 1pm EDT The Ruling Machine: Wood Engraving’s Forgotten Secret Weapon – a demonstration and presentation exclusively with Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum’s 2021 Virtual Wayzgoose! Join Joanne Price for a virtual presentation and demonstration as she unmasks the mysterious semi-mechanization of wood engraving in the…
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…
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…
I (Joanne Price of Starpointe Studio), will be teaching a week-long workshop at the prestigious Wells Book Arts Summer Institute in Aurora, New York July 14–20, 2019. Wood Engraving: Historic Letterpress Illustration will help you create delicate, fine details with bold woodcut characteristics, perfect for adding illustrations to letterpress greeting cards, artist’s books, broadsides or…
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…
On Saturday, Aug. 11, Joanne Price (that’s me), will present a demonstration of wood engraving from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea. It appears this will be the first time wood engraving will be demonstrated at the Center. Wood engraving is a relief printmaking medium, like stamps, woodcuts, letterpress,…
Starpointe Studio will be rockin’ it at Buffalo BookFest, Saturday July 7th, Noon–5pm! In addition to all the great and FREE stuff happening at the Bookfest – check out my contributions: Starpointe Studio will be selling print and bookish items in the vendor area – come say hello! You’ll also see my large woodcut, Buffalo…
This summer, my wood engraving classes hit the road—coast-to-coast—Seattle, Washington to Buffalo, New York! These one-day workshops are especially designed to be taster/teasers – short & sweet, like summer’s kiss! Walk away with the know-how to make illustrations the “old” way—black & white images hand-cut into end grain wood—perfect for adding illustrations to letterpress cards,…