![]() ![]() He began a series of print portfolios, producing Ten Canadian Colour Prints in 1927, and The Canadian Scene in 1928. He produced prints and watercolours regularly and wrote the book The Technique of the Colour Woodcut in 1926. Critical to Phillips’s work, sizing gave his woodcuts the perfection of tone and surface, the fine layering of crisply transferred colour, and delicate silken surface that characterizes them. ![]() ![]() He would return to England in September of 1924, where he met Yoshijiro Urushibara, a master printmaker visiting from Japan, who taught Phillips the importance of sizing, a gelatinous mixture applied to the printing paper. Within two years Phillips’s woodcuts were reproduced in The Studio, and his virtuosity was fully apparent. In 1917 he produced Winter, a remarkable accomplishment in a new and difficult medium. In 1916, the National Gallery of Canada purchased two etchings, but Phillips was not satisfied with the colour limitations of this medium and turned to the woodcut, learning the technique himself. He began etching in 1915, learning the technique from Cyril Barraud and quickly mastering it. Walter Phillips came to Canada from England in 1913, settling in Winnipeg where he taught at St. ![]()
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