The less expensive for the adventurous, your friendly local home-supply store and, of course any lumberyard or building supplies warehouse in your town. You can get wood that is ready to cut out of the box but I still go through my ritual outlined below.Ĭheck the Links Page on this blog for these and other resources.
The expensive but tried and true, most printmaking suppliers will have some sort of wood designed and milled specifically for woodcuts. Understanding Wood: A Craftsman's Guide to Wood TechnologyĪbout Wood Sources and Resources You can get wood for printmakers from: The Encyclopedia Of Wood: A Tree-By-Tree Guide To The World's Most Versatile Resource Here is a brief wood primer for the woodcut printmaker.Ī couple of reference books on wood species and suitability of wood for various crafts (I have added these and others to my BookStore page on this blog): You will want to carve it and stain it and sand it and plane it and collect different species. Seemingly mysterious at first, once you begin working with wood an addiction takes over. You can achieve simple to exaggerated color results using this process.Wood is a magical and wonderful material. The cool thing about this style is the ability to "Randomize Colors" throughout your artwork and the ability to replace any or all of these colors, using the full-spectrum color picker. The Multi-Block style uses 5 blocks of color pulled from your original image then divides the colors across your artwork giving the look of carving a separate woodblock for every color.By adjusting the "Image Color" slider you can reduce or add colors to your artwork giving it a variety of printed-styles, from a full-color block process to spot-color ones. The Multi-Color style uses all the original colors in your photo.
Once the desired color is achieved complete your artwork with an artistic edge or paper. If the preset colors chosen for your work are not to your liking, there is the option to alter your palette colors. Choose from a range of bold chisled outlines, and bright to subtle color combinations. Presets are also available to give your project a quick start. Using sliders found on the adjust tab you can control the smoothness, width and strength of the chiseled outline to fit your composition. The outlines in Moku Hanga are extremely eye catching, replicating a hand chiseled relief-art. The Moku Hanga app, Moku the Japanese word for “wood” while hanga is known as “print”, allows you to create an artistic wood-block print from any picture or snapshot - no need for time consuming carving - the artists from JixiPix do all the work for you! With the power to fully customize your Moku Hanga, you can create a masterpiece artistic enough be part of printmaking history! Breathtaking landscapes, beautiful women, and busy cityscapes can be transformed into this exotic art known for flowing hand-chiseled outlines and brushed on color. You've discovered the fascinating art of Moku Hanga, the Japanese method of wood-block printing.
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