Reduction Cut
An abandonned quarry near Kelbra. Usually you would need three plates for the print. Here a reduction cut can be used: The same plate is beeing cut again to print […]
Author Archives: Abel Dewitz
four days
Four days, six people, a place in the forest, an old quarry, drawing, drawing drawing. And in the evening cooking at the campfire. A workshop with Henrik Schrat. Vier Tage, […]
Out of the Dark
Handling wet paper with precision is a challenge. With a waterbased Mokuhanga woodcut you have to do that. With 60 cm it´s the biggest that I have made up to […]
Trees
A woodcut from five plates, mostly several impressions per plate. I wanted the colors to be intense, but not unnatural signal colors. so I used strong contrasts – green/red, yellow/blue […]
The End is the Beginning
A tree at the seaside, mostly stormy weather, it can´t grow properly, bend or even broken by the wind. This is a moku hanga woodcut from two plates on a […]
Order
Order and disorder, chaos and regularity – to find a balance between these extremes is what I try to get with my stamp prints. This one is made from very […]
Moments
You can find some photographs from my current exhibition at Eisenhuette Augustfehn here.
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 […]
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 […]
