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 […]
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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 shure that everything fits well I make a print with all plates, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Printing in layers
Again printing with stamps. I cut these stamps after some sketches of plane trees, then I divided these stamps in smaler pieces. And here they are: first ocre, then light […]
Once it was a Print
…but now it´s a painting. After the very reduced forms of “plane trees 2” I wanted to make it more active and with some warme colours. …aber jetzt ist es ein […]
Red River
This is part three of a series of woodcuts combined with etching. Here are the three prints together:
Plane Trees 2
Again the plane trees and I’m sure, there will be more.
Plane Trees
This is still an experiment. I’ve been making stamp prints quite a lot, but this is my first attempt to make a mokuhanga stamp print. It’s based on the shapes […]
