| Despite ill health and struggles with drugs, he produced many important paintings and major portrait woodcuts. |
| Preston produced oil paintings, linocut prints, and woodcuts that were often still-lifes of Australian flora and fauna. |
| Fond of using wood as a medium, Frank began to gain recognition for his woodcuts and wood engravings. |
| Wood engraving allows to make finer lines than woodcuts and more impressions from the same block. |
| There were paintings on paper mounted on canvas, photos of paintings, paintings on photographs, woodcuts and photos of drawings. |
| He was skilled in the art of a number of different printing techniques such as woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints. |
