Love minus Zero
In the song “Love minus zero”, Bob Dylan says: “There´s no success like failure and failure´s no success at all”. That´s the experience I had with my planned shadow-prints. After […]
Author Archives: Abel Dewitz
Shadows
In Winter, the sunlight isn´t filtered by the leaves. On the smooth bark of the beechtrees, the shadows are dancing. This is the first of four prints that I´m planning, […]
Winter Print 2
Some time ago I made Winter Print, now here is a variation. A technical remark: The black parts needed some structure, not a uniform color. So I painted the wooden […]
Nuances
Small changes in colors, shade and intensity, may change a lot in the impact of the resulting picture. Here you can find my first prints about a rocky cove at […]
Triple
Printmaking – that´s not only making an edition, it is also about variation, trying different colors and intensities. The color of the rocks is printed twice: ultramarine blue and a […]
Rocky Coast Felsküste
A rocky coast in in Sweden, shaped during ice age. This is print from four plates with two gradations. Eine Felskuste in Schweden, wie sie in der Eiszeit geformt wurde. […]
Winter Print
A friend and I, we decided to have an exhibition together in 2020. Preparing for this exhibition, we both choose a photo and gave it to the other one […]
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 […]
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 […]
