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Relief Print Quality
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Respecting Wood in Relief Printmaking
Relief Printmaking Image Ideas
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Relief Printmaking Wood Choices
Relief Printmaking Sizes
Large Relief Printmaking Problems
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Relief Printmaking Experimentation
Summary: Size possibilities in relief printmaking are endless. Experiment with wood block sizes with expertise from a printmaker in this free printmaking video.
Francine Affourtit is a woodcut printmaker and has taught woodcut printmaking to children, adults and teachers for a number of years. Francine is new to Austin, TX, and can be reached...read more
"Once you've learned the basics of relief print making, the options for expanding your investigation are endless. I encourage you to experiment with size and wood. Here is a hardware grade plywood, it's nice and thick, which means it's not going to warp as easily. It's a little more complicated to carve, a little bit more tough, a bit more resistance, but it's going to give me a lot of texture, I'm going to get a lot of wood texture. I have wood knots in here that are going to transfer into my print, and I can use that as elements of my image, and really accentuate the fact that I'm using wood, and the unique elements of that wood in my print. Now this is a very large print. I encourage you to take the challenge to work large, and work with a larger piece of wood. It takes a lot more time to hand print certainly, but by hand printing, you can make it as large as you want to. Here in this image, there's an image of a running angel that has been printed with several layers of ink onto this piece of very thin Japanese paper here."
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