Two JJ Lankes woodcuts

Here’s a couple of woodcuts by JJ Lankes. Even though they aren’t wood engravings, his work does have the feel of an engraving rather than plank grain work.

He was born in Buffalo, New York in 1884. In his youth he trained and worked as a draughtsman before going on to study art at the Art Student’s League of Buffalo and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Wood Block Printing

Wood Block Printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper. As a method of printing on cloth, the earliest surviving examples from China date to before 220, and from Egypt to the [...]

Amy Winehouse

Amy Winehouse, a very talented singer/songwriter and perhaps a bit of a train wreck. I’m fascinated by talented people who succumb to their own weaknesses. Although there is something to be said for the “Go big or go home” theory when it comes to feeding your art. I grabbed a sheet of old weather beaten [...]