Egg tempera overprint. /mokuhanga/

In the printing fever I decided to use egg as a binder for white overprint.
It happened.

The print is moku hanga: "Tesia" from the 4x4 cycle 2021

The block with white layer applied

The paper on top of a block

Pulling up the print

3 movies about Japanese woodblock

Being (a little) bored about the technical approach to mokuhanga I would like to share with You 3 good stories about ukiyo-e artists. Each movie is separate masterpiece, but there is also a very special relationship between them. Some scenes are breathtaking. I'm sure You will enjoy ;)


1. Kenji Mizoguchi (1946) - "Utamaro and His Five Women"
 

2. Kaneto Shindô (1981) - "Hokusai Manga" also known (?) as "Edo Porn"

3. Masahiro Shinoda (1995) - "Sharaku" 

Click on the title to have a  IMDB reference.
enjoy :)

pine is wild _ alder is mild

I am having a lecture about water based woodblock + presentation of my woodcuts at Ethno Museum in Cracow.

29 November 2014 (Saturday)
11.00 AM

Seweryn Udziela Etnographic Museum in Krakow
Auditorial room
at the Town Hall building
Plac Wolnica 1 street
31-060 Krakow
POLAND

LINK

You're fairly invited.

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And now the more important part of this post:


Don't forget to visit the big exhibition of extremely rare Polish traditional folk woodcuts from Lwów, that is on the display for the public for the first time at Ethnographic Museum there in Cracow. Definitely a milestone event. I can't wait to see this.

 

LINK to exhibition shots and Polish text.

 

Link to the English text by Mrs Grażyna Mosio form Ethno Museum in Cracow.

 

Faces of Woodcut. at BWA Olsztyn. 19 Jan 2012.

I was invited to give a lecture about woodcut printing techniques due to the closing celebration of X Quadriennale of Polish Woodcut and Linocut. I was talking about variety of methods, sensitivities and traditions of this fundamental printmaking technique, also presented my author's process of making a print. It was a great pleasure to talk about beauty and mystery of woodcut.


link