After the Rain
With this print I´m participating in the International Mini Print Cantabrica, taking place in Santander 2019. The theme of thisexhibition: “The Sea and the Lighthouse”.In 2018 I was in Santander […]
Author Archives: Abel Dewitz
Thinking of Summer
This is the most abstract of my landscape prints, perhaps it isn´t a landscape at all, but it reminds me of a s
Forest
I like walking in the forest very much. So I started a series of three prints: Forest in the colours of autumn. Here is number three, the most colourful one. […]
Time for a Fairy Tale
“Sleeping beauty” (Dornröschen) is a well known tale. The polish writer Stanislaw Lem made a funny variant of it part of his “Robot Fairy Tales” (Robotermärchen). Imagine the evolution of […]
Making a Moku Hanga Print 4
(continuation from part 3) And now green. I had cut large areas for green, but I only use the bottom parts not to spoil the red. The last colour besides […]
Making a Moku Hanga Print 3
(continuation from part 2) The bottom part of the print is also blue (a third kind) and over it (from the same plate) a gradation of ocre. For a gradation, […]
Making a Moku Hanga Print 2
(Continuation of part 1) When the plates are cut, the remaining paper can be removed with water. To be sure that everything fits well I make a print with all […]
Making a Moku Hanga Print 1
You want to know, how to use the japanese technique of woodcut, based on watercolour? Here you have an example, step by step: Traditionally everything starts with a brushdrawing. It […]
Autumn Print
Autumn Print (Herbstbild) – a woodcut in japanese technique from four plates. Ocre, light brown anddarker red-brown (one plate), blue (to different blues from one plate), grey. I developed the […]
newely paved
In 2013 I started experimenting with self cut rubber stamps. I made the pavement series, because walking over broken tiles of the pavement was an inspiration for this work. Two […]
Granite
Rocks in Sweden are mostly granite, shaped by glacial power. These forms seem to be irregular, totaly random. But aren´t they formed according to the laws of nature, forces and […]
Early Spring
The last two of my “Plane Tree”-series, because the stamps that I used are recut again and again – now they are gone. There are a lot of plane trees […]
