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I’ve just spent a very pleasant four days learning about Japanese Woodblock Printing at Warringah Printmakers Studio In Manly Vale, NSW with Rosanna Jurisevic.

Warringah Printmakers Studio is a community based, non-profit organisation offering classes, workshops, studio access, regular exhibitions & a variety of exciting & innovative projects for artists with Studio membership.

by Colin Bailey

Etching and engraving come under the printmaking category of intaglio - the print results from ink being forced out of the incised lines and not from the surface of the plate. Engraving was originally used to decorate metal. These decorations would often be filled with pigment which with the right pressure was found to transfer to paper or cloth producing a print. Etching differs from engraving in that acid replaces the physical effort of incising the plate allowing for a much lighter and freer range of marks and textures. The depth of the line can also be more easily controlled and used to create richer and more varied tones.

By George McKim

The art of the woodcut print has a long tradition particularly in the Chinese and Japanese cultures. Woodcut printing is capable of a wide range of effects from the subtle, poetic, multicolor, detailed prints of the Oriental artists to the bold, expressive, graphic, black and white prints of the German Expressionist artists in the early twentieth century.