#Wood block prints

[uwmspeccoll]

Wood Engraving Wednesday

So, this week we’re replacing our usual wood engravings with color woodcuts instead because we wanted to show off some of the exquisite original wood block prints from a 2-volume set of contemporary Japanese woodcuts. The volumes have not been cataloged yet because the title and publication information are in Japanese and we have not had them translated yet. The title (we believe) is on the cover of the book, which we show here.

The two volumes contain 24 original prints by different artists showcasing traditional techniques with modern sensibilities. Each print is stored in a page composed of a polyethylene sleeve that the print can be removed from. Please click or tap on the images for title and artist information.

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[morningmercury]

I finally put these prints up on etsy! Check'em out if you wanna get a cute lil lino print with a dash of existential dread!

[saltedsnailstudio]

pulled some test prints of this new lil block

[inutiliacapra]

GRIFFIN!!! OF SELF CARE!! i did alot of self care today :D

self care includes: having a good therapy sesh.. got sum melatonin gummies and getting 8 hours of sleep tonight... showered really good.. brushed teeth and used lotion... took my meds on time... and also made myself dinna (sausage and garlic bread :3)

i also finally used the rest of the wood from my closet, so back to digital art!!!!

[heaveninawildflower]

Wood block prints taken from 'The Insect Book' by Utamaro Kitagawa (1753?-1806).

Wikimedia.

[alexmurison]

So lately I’ve been experimenting with tree ring prints. I’ve collected a few like this piece of oak from a damaged tree that needed to be brought down. It’s still a learning curve at the moment on getting the burning right and knowing the correct amount of ink to use, but I’m really enjoying the process and hopefully I’ll have some more on the way.

How do you think it looks?

[holespoles]

Noboru Yamataka "Season of fallen leaves"

山高登「落葉の季節」

[rosieandthemoon]

Museum of Curiosities (1778)

[mrokat-art]

✸ Woody the Wolf ✸

linocut prints available

[misterlemonztenth]

08-11-24 | Animated version of Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa, wood block print, 1831. via berkeleygirl3. misterlemonztenth.tumblr.com/archive

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

On this day, July 17th, in 1871 Expressionist and Bauhaus artist Lyonel Feininger was born into a German-American household in New York City. At the age of 16, Feininger moved to Germany to perfect his craft and later became part of the German Expressionist movement. He associated with artists from many different Expressionist groups including Die Brücke and the Blaue Reiter Circle during his time in Germany. Feininger also gained an interest in the Bauhaus school while in Germany and eventually designed the cover for the 1919 Bauhaus Manifesto and taught at the movement’s school for many years.

Much of Feininger’s Bauhaus work can be seen in the exhibition catalog Lyonel Feininger: Becoming a Bauhaus Artist, Woodcuts published in Bielefeld, Germany by Kerber Verlag in 2013. A large amount of the artist’s works focus on the representation of churches, both in his woodcuts and paintings. Viewers can see the clear Bauhaus influence in the artist’s work: minimalistic geometric shapes are used to depict the many buildings and scenes created by the artist, in both his prints and paintings. We also see Expressionist influence in these works as well, as they are also focused on similar geometric forms and creating art that represented what the artist felt about the subject, rather than a completely realistic depiction of it.

After his artwork was included in Hitler’s Degenerate Art exhibit, Feininger returned to America to teach, but he eventually moved back to Germany and focused on photography before his death in 1956.

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– Sarah S., Special Collections Graduate Intern.

[clockwaysarts]

60 prints, about 5 hours, done!

"Have You Tried Taking Advil?"

[saltedsnailstudio]

a small smattering of things I’ve made recently

[littlealienproducts]

Princess Mononoke Woodblock by blacksapphiredragon

[ratatoskryggdrasil]

Paul Binnie, North Rocks, Blacks Beach: Hazy Sunlight, 2023

[c-kiddo]

I absolutely love your cr art, it’s so yummy and cozy!!!! Idk if this has already been asked or not, but how do you digitally color your traditional sketches? It’s a really cool look and I want to try it out myself but I can’t wrap my brain around how you got it to work XP

thank you :- ) !! to colour traditional sketches i take a photo of the sketch on my phone and then send it to my ipad (my phone is newer so the photo is better lol) and use procreate to adjust levels and things for the photo so its closer to just lines and then put it on multiply layer mode and colour it underneath