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Posted By: Julie

engravings made with hand-held tools. They should properly be called "wood engravings", not woodcuts. See VCBC #14.
So much for "these drawings." I have 8 or 9 of them, and they are way underpiced.
A woodcut, NOT a wood engraving, is carved into wood with the intention of inking the wood with differentr, often very bright colors, and the woodblock print is not complete until the colors-and-lines are transferred to a piece of paper. They can be re-colored numerous times--in fact, until the lines cut in the wood wear out. Thus, no two woodcuts are exactly the same--they are either brighter or paler, or with slightkly different colors than the rest of the same design. Harper's wood engraving:

Japanese woodblock print (with an extra spot on her nose--sorry):