Double the Fun

The latest round of woodcut classes in Belmar continued tonight, but now we have two students.  Mary, one of our regulars, returned from a Boston area workshop, ready to make a new print.  She had told me that at this workshop she was going to be learning about traditional Japanese woodcut technique, but what she ended up learning about was the Provincetown style of woodcut.   It starts with a white line cutting of a compositional drawing, but instead of removing more wood and leaving shapes of white, the shapes between the lines are individually inked with different colors and printed.  The result looks like one of my hand colored prints, except with white lines (un-inked paper) separating the color shapes instead of lines of black ink.  I've been familiar with the process for quite a while, but never had the urge to try it myself.  Mary forgot to bring with her tonight her piece from workshop, but she started a new one using the same process, so we'll all get to see that soon.

The pro-Red Sox t-shirt that Mary is wearing does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the management at Studio Arrabbiata.