Making Woodcuts & Wood Engravings, Lessons by a Modern Master
by Hans Alexander Mueller
This Dover reprint is an unabridged copy of How I Make Woodcuts & Wood Engravings, published in 1945. Mueller, a prolific book illustrator and accomplished artist of the time, describes the place of woodcut and wood engraving in graphic arts; gives useful descriptions of technique plus lots of tips gathered from a lifetime as a printmaker; and describes his method for making multi-color prints with overlapping colors.
The writing is conversational, full of critical observations and the artist's philosophy of art and printmaking. While other books may be more suitable for beginning western-style printmakers in terms of explaining the process step-by-step (see Handmade Prints, Relief Printmaking: Woodcut and Linocut, The Woodcut Artist's Handbook or the encyclopedic Art and Craft of Woodblock Printmaking), this book provides a very useful and entertaining look at how woodcuts and wood engravings were made over sixty years ago.
The text is accompanied by ninety-eight illustrations, thirty-six of them in color.
96pp, soft cover, 9 1/4 " x 6 1/8 "
Shipping weight: 0.5 lb
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| R2517 | Making Woodcuts & Wood Engravings, by Hans Alexander Mueller | $12.95 | |