{"id":1048,"date":"2010-07-19T02:30:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T07:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svmedaris.wordpress.com\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2010-07-19T02:30:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T07:30:38","slug":"process-of-a-reduction-woodblock-print-and-pics-from-frogmans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/process-of-a-reduction-woodblock-print-and-pics-from-frogmans\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a reduction woodblock print in 5 days (and pics from\u00a0Frogman\u2019s)"},"content":{"rendered":"

More pics from the class, including the different stages of the woodcut:<\/p>\n

Monday<\/strong>
\nDraw the design down and seal with shellac:<\/p>\n

\"drawn<\/a>

32in x 24in blocks lined up, shellac drying, to begin cutting tomorrow.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"blocks<\/a>

A little over 1\/2 of the students' blocks drying overnight<\/p><\/div>\n

Tuesday<\/strong>
\nInk up the whole block with 1rst color (no white of paper in this print) and print onto 18 pieces of Mulberry:<\/p>\n

\"yellow<\/a>

Yellow printed on the mulberry paper, no cuts yet.<\/p><\/div>\n

Then cut the block for that 1st color (where you want the yellow part of the print to remain pure yellow), and ink up block with color #2, bright pink:<\/p>\n

\"block<\/a>

Color #2, bright pink<\/p><\/div>\n

And the print:<\/p>\n

\"red<\/a>

Color #2 (bright pink) over yellow, creates a salmony red.<\/p><\/div>\n


\nWednesday<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cut for 2nd color (where you want the red to remain on print), and ink block with 3rd color (bright lime-green):<\/p>\n

\"closeup<\/a>

Bright green ink used for color #3.<\/p><\/div>\n

And print:<\/p>\n

\"3rd<\/a>

The print, now with 3 colors.<\/p><\/div>\n

Thursday<\/strong>
\nCut for 3rd color (where the green-now olive in print- shall remain), and ink with 4th color (bright violet):<\/p>\n

\"purple-inked<\/a>

Color #4 is bright violet.<\/p><\/div>\n

And the print:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Print with 4 colors, causing the bright green to print olive brown (over the underlying layers), and the purple to change to brownish purple <\/p><\/div>\n

I liked the look of this purple image, and since I had to cut out much of the purple (including the silhouette of the hilltop farm) in order to print the final black run, I decided to print some tees with it:<\/p>\n

\"purple<\/a>

The purple block printed onto some tees.<\/p><\/div>\n

Friday<\/strong>
\nCutting and inking for 5th\/final color: black<\/p>\n

\"Woodcut<\/a><\/strong>

Final color: black<\/p><\/div>\n

And the final print:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"multi-color<\/a><\/strong>

The final print! Finished at 11:50pm, Friday night. 'Turkey Promenade' \u2022 30in x 22in \u2022 5 color reduction woodblock print, edition of 15<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s some pics of the class:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"classroom<\/a><\/strong>

The classroom, with 4 blocks\/students to each table.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"student<\/a>

This student carefully pulls the print off of the block after printing it.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More pics from the class, including the different stages of the woodcut: Monday Draw the design down and seal with shellac: Tuesday Ink up the whole block with 1rst color (no white of paper in this print) and print onto 18 pieces of Mulberry: Then cut the block for that 1st color (where you want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,4,52,25,53],"tags":[230,231,232,600,613],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fowl","category-printmaking","category-relief","category-turkey","category-woodcut","tag-frogmans","tag-nancy-palmeri","tag-reduction","tag-turkey","tag-woodcut"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35JA0-gU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}