Beeches – about sketching and cutting
(Für deutsche Fassung bitte nach unten scrollen!) In early spring the leaves are still buds, there´s light between the trees, and these beech trees -actually a twin tree – with […]
Category Archives: holzschnitt
Roots
I like the old beech trees with their strong roots. How to make a woodcut? How to show the stout forms? How to get some depth in the picture? […]
Social Distancing
Today we all have to keep distance from each other. But not only we as individuals act like that. The societies are closing the doors. The European Union promised to […]
From Print to Painting
Leaving Rönnäng (Sweden) by boat, you have to go through a small passage. I took a photo last year. Will we be back this year? I`m not sure because of […]
From sketch to print
From my sketch of a pollarded ash tree I made a print, trying to keep the idea of the brush strokes alive. Some of these print got a second layer […]
Three Friends
I took a test print from the “Wurmberg“-print, test prints from “Lighthouse Europe“, cut out some figures, added some shadows with black ink – and here is new story. I […]
Lighthouse Europe
“El mar y los faros”, “The Sea and the lighthouses”, that´s the theme of the miniprint exhibition at the lighthouse of Santander (Spain). My contribution will be this black-and-white print […]
Winter-no Snow
In January we made a walk in the Harz mountains. That´s the region where I was born. No snow this year, but we looked down on the foggy valley and […]
number 4
Now here is the last one of the shadow series: The series is complete now:
More Shadows
After the problems with my second shadow-print, I tried again from the same plates, but with reduced coloring and leaving aside one plate. Nach den Schwierigkeiten mit meinem zweiten Schatten-Druck, […]
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 […]
