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Landscape woodblock print process

Drawing was made in sketchbook using a 5B pencil.
Drawing was then coloured in photoshop.
This is another one of the colourations.
Image was photocopied from sketchbook, then pasted onto an MDF board.
Beginning to cut the block.
A knife was used to cut some of the finer edges.
A rought sketch in pencil was done of what the rest of the image would look like.
As more of the block was cut out, the image was cleaned up using markers to show seperate areas.
More progress being made.
When finished, thehe keyblock was printed onto a piece of newsprint, this was then pasted ontl a second block. This block is for rolling colours onto. A few choice cuts were made to comibe with cuts on the keyblock.
Rolling up the keyblock with ink.
Keyblock ready to print.
2 block colour print. Colours were all rolled on at the same time for the second layer to be printed.
Landscape woodblock print process
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Landscape woodblock print process

A 2 block woodcut I completed for Semester 1 of my 4th Year college work.

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