Peter Bosteels: Wood engraving

25-28 November

Wood engraving is seen as an old Block printing technique, which is not so popular because of the work intensity and it’s history as commercial illustration. Few modern artists have used wood engraving in their artistic work. Still wood engraved images are well known because of the large amount of prints that were published in encyclopedia or scientific magazines and books during the eighteenth- and the beginning of the nineteenth century. Gray-scale engraving is the most detailed way of engraving, which was used by the industrial engravers when wood engraving was popular. Their high level skill is seen as unparalleled ever since.

In this demonstration Professor Peter Bosteels, who has over twenty years of experience as an engraver, would like to introduce you to wood engraving from the preparation of the boxwood on, the engraving until the printing.