Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking.
Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and images using a master form or template.
Tools used to create an original woodblock.
An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood usually with gouges.
The artist leaves the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts.
Areas that the artist cuts away carry no ink. The characters or images at the surface level carry the ink to produce the print.
The block is cut along the wood grain.
The surface is covered with ink by rolling over the surface with an ink-covered roller (brayer), leaving ink upon the flat surface but not in the non-printing areas.
Relief printing is a printing method where a printing block, plate, or matrix has had ink applied to its surface. No paint is applied to any recessed areas…and it’s brought into contact with…
