{"id":6595,"date":"2010-02-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/2010\/02\/07\/wood-cut-workshop\/"},"modified":"2010-02-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T00:00:00","slug":"wood-cut-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/?p=6595","title":{"rendered":"Wood cut workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--single.php--><\/p>\n<p><!--loop-->\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t        <!--navigation--><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!--post title--><\/p>\n<div class=\"postspace2\">\n\t<\/div>\n<p><!--content with more link--><\/p>\n<p>I attended a wood-cut workshop last night. Our teacher, Jan Terje Rafdal, is a very talented graphic artist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_7962.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5227\" title=\"IMG_7962\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_7962.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here he is in his studio. A very inspiring place, might I add. He is also a great painter, and you can see some of his oil-paintings<a href=\"http:\/\/www.statsgalleriet.no\/\">&amp;nbsp;here.&amp;nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_7965.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5228\" title=\"IMG_7965\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_7965.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"174\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here he is showing some of his work, and how metal etching prints works.&amp;nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the picture I had chosen to work with, taken in Paris this summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_16661.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5241\" title=\"IMG_1666\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_16661.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"378\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After I\u00b4ve reduced it from millions to three colors\u2026&amp;nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_1666.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5240\" title=\"IMG_1666\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_1666.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"357\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tracing the grey areas onto the MDF-plate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_7974.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5229\" title=\"IMG_7974\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_7974.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chizzeling away\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_7994.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5236\" title=\"IMG_7994\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_7994.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"525\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First layer done!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_7977.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5230\" title=\"IMG_7977\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_7977.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"330\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mixing the print-color.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_7985.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5231\" title=\"IMG_7985\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_7985.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"244\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Getting ready for the first test-run through the press.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_7989.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5232\" title=\"IMG_7989\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_7989.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"222\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adjusting the press\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_79951.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5237\" title=\"IMG_7995\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_79951.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"171\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First test-print in the middle-color.&amp;nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_7997.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5239\" title=\"IMG_7997\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_7997.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"364\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a test-print with both layers, the white-grey-black photocopy, and the second wood-cut layer, all ready chizzled.&amp;nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_7992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5233\" title=\"IMG_7992\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_7992.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"525\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is the final picture:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/woodcut.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5244\" title=\"woodcut\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/woodcut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"473\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was so much fun trying out this, to me, new technique. There is still some \u201cdust\u201d\/traces of wood in the picture, and I have some prints without them, but we kind of agreed that this one looks more like a wood-cut, while the other one looked more like silk-screen. The print is 20\u00d723 cm, and I never thought I\u00b4d be able to finish both layers in just 4 hours.&amp;nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now THAT was a fun way to spend a Saturday evening!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                       <!--for paginate posts--><\/p>\n<div class=\"postspace\">\n\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!--all options over and out--><\/p>\n<p>\t<!--include comments template--><\/p>\n<p><!-- You can start editing here. --><\/p>\n<p>        <!--do not delete--><\/p>\n<p><!--single.php end--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a wood-cut workshop last night. Our teacher, Jan Terje Rafdal, is a very talented graphic artist. 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