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 […]
Author Archives: Abel Dewitz
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 […]
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 […]
