Product Description

Working a steel burin by hand through boxwood, copper or steel is a skill that has been all but abandoned in this age of photomechanical reproduction. It requires patience, strength and an unerring sense of how the whole will develop from lines that once engraved are not easily erased. One of this century's masters was Leo Wyatt, an artist born in South Africa, settling, most appropriately, in Newcastle-on-Tyne (the home of Thomas Bewick who virtually invented the technique) and who took up wood engraving after he turned fifty. He was also a man who passionately loved the Roman and cursive alphabet in all its infinite variety.

What we have attempted in this lovely, small volume is to give a sense of the vitality and virtuosity of Wyatt's engravings. Selecting what we feel are his best alphabets and aphorisms, we have printed them in four flat colors and provided a preface that provides a brief introduction to the man, his life, and the technique he made his own.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7257493 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages