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I am pleased to announce that I am an 11 Month Affiliate Artist at the Center. So…
Join me Friday, April 16 from 6-9pm for a reception at McColl Center for Visual Art. Visit with me in my studio, meet the other Affiliate Artists and see the humorous and probing exhibition in [...]

I finally went out to the garage to mix up some ink and print. I was starting to hem and haw over various possibilities: printing flats behind the main block, cutting another simple background block, etc. After a few wasted piles of ink, I finally arrived a nice dark brown. It keeps it simple and [...]

I’m still going full tilt on this carving. Here is the latest. I have a couple days off for thanksgiving so hopefully I’ll have a chance to get to some other stuff as well.

I’m gripped by a desire to keep cutting. Last night, I was just going to make a few little cuts before moving on to other work. I looked up and suddenly it was 1:30 a.m. and the floor was covered in little curls of wood. This is a good thing.

When I went to the woodworking store the the other day I got distracted by all the cool wood carving tools and books they had. I have always wanted to try to carve something in the round. I ended up buying a block of basswood as an impulse item in addition to my new tool. [...]

Every now and then I like to do a self portrait to examine and document where I’m at in that point in my life. I was overdue so I whipped up this block. Now the question is: do I want to just print it with black ink on white paper or is there something else [...]

It is a winner. I had been using an old c and v gouge from the set I bought in college. Every time I started a new block, I would think, man this v-gouge is dull. I tried to sharpen it, but to no avail. Finally, yesterday, I went to a local woodworking store and [...]

The Block is the personal art blog of Daniel Allegrucci. The focus is on woodcuts and prints in general, but any art is fair game. This blog is a place for exploring and sharing my artmaking process as well as the results of that process. Hope you enjoy it.
I should thank my friend Ashley Lathe [...]