2023 is starting out well with some exciting experiments I made last fall. Many of my experiments are played out in print exchanges – a fun print tradition where a theme is set and each artist gets one of each participant’s prints. I participated in three exchanges this fall. One for seed packets, one for…
The Ruling Machine: Wood Engraving’s Secret Weapon (live online) Monday October 25, 1pm EDT The Ruling Machine: Wood Engraving’s Forgotten Secret Weapon – a demonstration and presentation exclusively with Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum’s 2021 Virtual Wayzgoose! Join Joanne Price for a virtual presentation and demonstration as she unmasks the mysterious semi-mechanization of wood engraving in the…
Join me (Joanne Price) for a short virtual presentation titled Wood Engraving Disasters followed by a Q&A style discussion hosted by the Wood Engravers Network (WEN) on Sunday March 21 at 3pm Central Time (US)! Craa-ack! As relief print artists we don’t talk often about the mistakes, accidents, or failures that lead us to a…
Learn Wood Engraving with Joanne Price! Wood engraving creates fine details with bold woodcut characteristics, perfect for adding illustrations to letterpress cards, artist books, graphic novels, comic books, broadsides, or as stand-alone images. Learn to cut your own original drawings into miniature end-grain hardwood blocks and print them in a limited edition. Instruction will cover…
Thankful for Your Support & Encouragement ‘Tis this season for gratitude and giving. To thank you for your generous support through this tough year I’ve enlisted this self-portrait from my grad-school days to lend a helping hand (haha) in presenting: FREE SHIPPING! Free shipping on everything in my shop in the contiguous US now until…
Meet your favorite and most comfortable face mask. Yep, I think we have to acknowledge that face masks are part of life and a new “normal” for a while. Fine — I accept and embrace this challenge and so can you! Introducing Starpointe Studio’s original, hand-printed designs and practical, customizable features like adjustable nose wire…
Welcome to a virtual tour of Starpointe Studio! Following the cancellation of the Kentucky Crafted Market event in Lexington, KY March 14 & 15, I decided to set up prints and items as a showcase. You can experience a quiet, slow-paced video perusal on You Tube: https://youtu.be/BQ2fEnFVDdo or just click on the picture above —…
I mark spring’s progress by the arrival of the elegant, but spunky barn swallows. I love that their diets include eating wasps and other insects around our home. And if you’ve ever witnessed the feast of mayflies by a body of water — you’re lucky enough to have seen the feeding frenzy coupled with the…
I (Joanne Price of Starpointe Studio), will be teaching a week-long workshop at the prestigious Wells Book Arts Summer Institute in Aurora, New York July 14–20, 2019. Wood Engraving: Historic Letterpress Illustration will help you create delicate, fine details with bold woodcut characteristics, perfect for adding illustrations to letterpress greeting cards, artist’s books, broadsides or…
Join me, Joanne Price, Wood Engravers’ Network President and founder/owner of Starpointe Studio, June 9–June 15, 2019 in Brasstown, North Carolina at the John C. Campbell Folk School for an immersive week of Wood Engraving: Historic Letterpress Illustration. John C. Campbell Folk School has a long tradition of keeping old crafts fresh and alive amid…