After my lovely one day workshop with David Peduzzi learning wood engraving, guess what I got for Christmas?!

A fantastic set of wood engraving tools and blocks.

The first thing I did was a tester block of all the different marks I could make with my tools.

Then this is my first 'on my own' print.

I still need to work out how to add tones as the stippling didn't really work here. But I'm pleased with the rest.

Comments from home range from;

"Yeah, it's alright"

"No, sure, it's good"

and

"You can't really tell what it is though, can you?"

Do you think Durer or Ravilious went through this sort of thing?

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