Kamisaka Sekka (Japan, 1866-1942) was an artist who spanned the movement of Japanese art toward modernism.   The Japanese governme...

          I did a previous post on wood engravings by Charles William Taylor (U.K., 1878-1960) nine years ago, but today I saw a few more, a...

          I’m excited to announce that my flash story “Hoarding Ghosts” was published today in MetaStellar .   Please head straight on over ...

          Here are a few block prints that capture today’s summer heat.   These are linoleum block prints painted with watercolor, by Leslie...

          Two hundred and fifty years ago there was a movement to start a new nation that would not be ruled by a tyrant.   Rather than a ki...

          Here is an interesting woodcut from about 1540-50, by an unidentified Italian artist.   The subject of this portrait is Sultan Sül...

          Frederick Douglass said, “Poets, prophets, and reformers are all picture-makers – and this ability is the secret of their power an...

          Jane Yolen (USA, 1939-2026) was a giant in the world of speculative fiction, children’s books, and poetry.   She was the author or...

          The jigsaw method of printing is a way to print multiple colors while carving only one block.   The basic idea is that after carvi...