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Mar. 11th, 2002
well, one more quarter and the ability to use the udub's servers as an imagehost will be gone. (that means that all the pictures i post will go away,) i'll have to look into a host, and that won't be any fun. since i've been really busy, i haven't taken the time to scan my images the way i wanted to, but i feel i owe the folks that support me at least a picture every now and again.
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this is a four-color reductive woodcut, made with the wood that my parents sent me. (a nice piece of cherry) the concept of a "reductive" cut was invented by picasso. you make a multicolored image from a single block. (Normally each color is a different block) first you carve out the areas that will remain the color of the page, then you print your lightest color, then you carve out the areas that you want to remain that lightest color, and then print a darker color, partially covering the earlier colors. in the darkest places of the print, the block has been printed four times. any error in registration (re-alligning the block on the page in-between colors) shows up very well in reductive printing, in this case, any error would show up as a green, yellow, or red "shadow" on either side of the bee's wings. Since error is so prevalent, you normally print far more than you need, in order to get one or two nearly perfect ones. this is one of two "perfect" prints from the ten i made. Reductive cut is very hard, (some say more trouble than it is worth) but the richness of the image is well worth the extra effort.
this is a four-color reductive woodcut, made with the wood that my parents sent me. (a nice piece of cherry) the concept of a "reductive" cut was invented by picasso. you make a multicolored image from a single block. (Normally each color is a different block) first you carve out the areas that will remain the color of the page, then you print your lightest color, then you carve out the areas that you want to remain that lightest color, and then print a darker color, partially covering the earlier colors. in the darkest places of the print, the block has been printed four times. any error in registration (re-alligning the block on the page in-between colors) shows up very well in reductive printing, in this case, any error would show up as a green, yellow, or red "shadow" on either side of the bee's wings. Since error is so prevalent, you normally print far more than you need, in order to get one or two nearly perfect ones. this is one of two "perfect" prints from the ten i made. Reductive cut is very hard, (some say more trouble than it is worth) but the richness of the image is well worth the extra effort.