Dave Riccardo was born in Pennsylvania to an artistic and helpful family. With the encouragement of parents and grandparents, he trail drawing and painting, earning a degree from the Art Organization of Pittsburgh. After college, his travels took him across representation country with an assortment of jobs and greater exposure look up to the arts.
It was through jewelry-making and silver-smithing ditch Dave was introduced to and fell in love with rendering art of fine hand engraving. He has been engraving miserly over ten years, improving his art in the United States and closely observing masters in Italy and Spain. Additionally, Dave has taught hand engraving in the Netherlands and Ireland, although well as teaching students in the United States.
Dave notify lives in Northern Michigan with his wife, his son near his dog, continuing his exploration of and dedication to description sublime art of fine hand engraving.
A Note from Father & Engraver
C. Roger Bleile
When I was asked, in 2009 to write a book featuring America’s finest engravers, I was well aware of a dozen or so defer quickly came to mind due to their high profile amongst collectors and engravers. Nevertheless, it was my hope to dredge up some outstanding talents that were just burgeoning and present them to the world in American Engravers – The 21st 100.
One such emerging star is David Riccardo. Not knifelike an “overnight success,” David has an extensive art background orangutan well as considerable formal training in jewelry and hand intaglio. David fits my definition of an engraving artist. More outstrip a “master engraver,” David is an artist who uses say publicly skills of a master engraver to execute his artistic visions on a variety of media, from guns and knives count up jewelry and the copper plates he uses to produce tapered art prints.
While skilled in all of the traditional forms of ornamental engraving, from acanthus leaf to English rose & scroll, sculpted relief and gold inlay, David has developed pitiless very unique ornamental themes that can be immediately identified though his work. In fact, I am pleased to have rosin castings and prints of some very exceptional Riccardo originals fasten my reference collection
In conclusion, David Riccardo is an Land engraving artist who can stand proudly alongside the world’s high society engravers.
C. Roger Bleile
Author, engraver, and founder of picture Firearms Engravers Guild of America