Relief Printmaking Proof Analysis

Video Transcript

"Now I have a proof of my print and with this print we can talk a little bit about what we're seeing here. For one, you can see how the carve marks have created the areas where the paper is showing threw since the surface of the block is what's inked and what has been carved away is going stay in this case the color of the paper. This proof is sort of a grainy image of this block of wood and one of the reasons is how we've printed it. In western style print making you can use a press to print your image. The press is going to exert a greater amount of pressure than I can quickly with this, with this baron and therefore give a much cleaner sheet of ink on the image for the print. But here I'm just proofing, I want to see how the carve mark is going; I'm not looking for a completed image that's going to be perfect and therefore I'm also not going to worry about some of these spots that have shown up on my, on my proof. But I can use this as a guide to show me how things are going and as you can see here in the print the areas that I've carved away; even if we didn't see the end result if I had carved away the, the; all of this area, you can see that the carved little elements of the carved mark are showing in my print. And this is what I was talking about when you're using the tool and making the carve marks; you want to be conscience of the fact that those marks are going to become part of your print. And so the way in which you carve your block of wood is going to tell a story onto your print. In this area where I've carved in a opposite direction it makes it seem pretty awkward compared of to what I want, how I want the print to read."