Book in Review

This past summer I picked up and read Magical Secrets about Line Etching and Engraving:  The Step by Step Art of Incised Lines by Catherine Brooks of Crown Point Press.  To any with a serious interest in printmaking this book is a must read.  I tend to be a bit of a technical junkie myself, and while the subject is not a new one to me this book did offer some new techie twists and tricks that kept me interested throughout.  Every printmaker I have worked with to date (Jeb Prazak, Joel Elgin, Peter Hoffer, Allison Wilse, Rob Hay, and of course my mother) all have had mildly different ways of handling things.  This book was no exception and did not disappoint.