Wisconsin wood engraver Tony Drehfal delights in intricate, tightly-focused, textured surfaces as demonstrated in this 17.5 x 12.7 cm (6.9 x 5 in.) print entitled Dovetail, selected by my Wisconsin colleagues Tracy Honn and Jim Moran for inclusion in the Fourth Triennial Exhibition 2020-2022 of the American American wood engravers society, the Wood Engravers’ Network (WEN). This image is from the catalog for that travelling show.
Drehfal learned wood engraving from Ann Arbor wood engraver and WEN founder Jim Horton in 2002, and after a 35-year career as a college photographer, Drehfal retired in 2015 to focus exclusively on wood engraving. He has quickly become a leader in the wood engraving community, and is a member of both WEN and its venerable British counterpart, the Society of Wood Engravers. Of his process, Drehfal writes:
Landscape and the minute details of the natural world serve as the primary inspiration of my wood engravings. Photography, drawing and engraving interweave in my creative process. I take photos often during hikes . . . near my home . . . in northern Wisconsin. Over time, recurring visual themes accumulate; birch trees, decaying stumps, knots and bark textures, and reflections in woodland ephemeral pools. I then draw and expand a theme in my sketchbook, using photos as reference. There is a point when photo references are put away and the process of drawing and wood engraving take on their own natural cadence towards a resulting print.
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– MAX, Head, Special Collections and juror for the WEN Fifth Triennial Exhibition.
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The dovetails are complete. Through dovetails with rabbeted backs to eliminate the need for stopped grooves. New episode of An Unplugged Life, details on the Unplugged Woodshop website. #theunpluggedwoodshop #anunpluggedlife #dovetails #dovetail #dovetailjoint #boxmaking #boxdesign #spanishcedar #madebyhand #handtoolsonly #handtoolwoodworking #handcutdovetails #handcutjoinery #handmade #handcrafted #unplugged (at The Unplugged Woodshop) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpx3a38Jmwj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Chapters: 35/80
Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Male Inquisitor (Dragon Age)/Everyone, Anders/Male Hawke, Male Inquisitor/Solas (Dragon Age), Male Inquisitor/Varric Tethras, Cole/Male Inquisitor (Dragon Age), Male Inquisitor/Dorian Pavus, Male Inquisitor/Iron Bull
Characters: Original Inquisitor Character(s) (Dragon Age), Varric Tethras, Cassandra Pentaghast, Solas (Dragon Age), Dorian Pavus, The Iron Bull (Dragon Age), Cole (Dragon Age), Anders (Dragon Age), Male Hawke (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Modern Girl in Thedas, Modern Boy in Thedas, Trans Male Character, Polyamory, Pop Culture, Concept Art Solas (Dragon Age), Canon-Typical Violence, Hunting, this is meant to be at least halfway a comedy, Hand Jobs, Semi-Public Sex, Flirting, Attempted Rape/Non-Con, Torture, Murder, Recreational Drug Use, Oral Sex, Solas sucks dream dick
Summary:
Dove doesn't expect to find anything more exciting than trespassers when he makes his way to the caverns beneath Leadville Sanitarium, but it's a full moon during the worst year of his life, so it seems that his luck has run out. Are they really cultists, sacrificing a woman to a mysterious god on All Hallows Eve? He doesn't know, but he's the only one around to help.
Now he finds himself in Thedas, with the Mark on his hand and surrounded by giants who wont take him seriously. The only thing he can do is close the Breach and hope that it's enough to wake him up from this nightmare.
Because it has to be a dream. There is no other option.
A long furred cinnamon tortie molly with pale green eyes and a pale belly. Dovetail’s thick soft coat is well known for getting caught in brackens and thorns and her low level cursing as she comes from the gorse tunnel is amusing. She has dark gray pads and nose leather.
Dovetail is a pleasant and sweet cat to be around, entertaining with her habit of insulting others without actively swearing at them. She prefers to hunt at night and is often lauded as the savior of dawn patrol as she can usually stock the fresh kill pile up just enough to ensure that they can eat. It’s not uncommon for her and a few other cats who prefer night hunting to serve as unofficial territory guards and report unusual activity - especially of night active creatures like skunks within their land.
Dovetail was one of the few cats to join ThundeClan as an adult rather than being picked up as a kit. She came at a rough time when the perspective and treatment of outsiders was still harsh due to a passing famine and dealt with a bit of harshness from her clanmates. She was never inclined to take that treatment and some cats claim that Smallear’s mild limp was her doing.
Dovetail’s closest friend is Acornleap who was always kind to her and other newcomers. This close bond has been retained for seasons now and Dovetail has begun to tentatively court her. Thus far, Acornleap has been responding positively and even reciprocating much to her delight.
With an undermount sink, beaded inset cabinets, gray cabinets, marble countertops, a white backsplash, a stone slab backsplash, stainless steel appliances, and an island in a large, elegant l-shaped medium-tone wood floor kitchen image.
Saturday’s at the Unplugged Woodshop- today, Dovetail Bootcamp with this group of students. Lots of great work as we learn the art of hand cut dovetails! Good stuff. #theunpluggedwoodshop #dovetails #woodworking #madebyhand #handcutdovetails #handcutjoinery #woodworkingclasses #torontowoodworking #learnwoodworking #dovetail #handtools #handcrafted #woodworkingschool #leslieville #gerrardstreeteast #toronto #unplugged (at The Unplugged Woodshop) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn-WkgmpsNz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=