Endpaper with Animals

About this work

You see a black sheet of paper with tiny silver animals—deer, rabbits, birds—pressed into it like footprints in snow. This isn’t a drawing; it’s a woodcut print. The artist carved the animals into a block of wood, inked it, and pressed it onto paper. The silver comes from metal leaf, not paint. It’s rare to see woodcuts done this way. If you like how the silver glows against black, look up the technique: woodcut.