Growing Up for Beginners by Claire Calman

Author:Claire Calman [Calman, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boldwood Books
Published: 2020-06-03T16:00:00+00:00

When Eleanor came back she went straight up to her studio with the sketchbook open in her hands, thinking. Already, as happened when she was excited about the prospect of turning a drawing into an engraving, she could picture the process. For her, there was great pleasure in the sequence and absorption of the work itself, not just in the final result: the finalising of the drawing, the transferring of it to the prepared surface of the woodblock, the satisfying feel of the tool easing into the block.

She liked the orderliness of wood engraving, its very particular combination of allowing you to be expressive yet incredibly precise. It was not something to tackle in a hurry: you needed to be calm and focused, and work with great care; you couldn’t just grab your tools and start gouging out grooves in the wood. She liked the tools themselves, the feel of each one in her hand, and their names that sounded like characters in a story by Roald Dahl – the scorpers, the spitstickers, the gravers.

Eleanor selected a woodblock from her plan chest, then proceeded to go through the stages of transferring the drawing to the prepared, black-painted block – tracing it onto thin layout paper, putting sanguine paper on the block, then fixing the tracing above this red carbon and marking the drawing once more using a very hard, sharp pencil to leave a clear guide on the block itself once she removed the carbon paper. She decided to start the actual engraving the following morning when she’d be fresh and rested. She tidied up, then went downstairs to order her takeaway and set up the film.

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