Woodcut / wood block carving technique and demonstration beginer overview, Song of Solomon Art

A brief overview explaining the ancient wood block carving technique I used in my art show at Art Gallery Tupos. I'm not an expert. But I went for it. And had fun. See my tools, wood choice, finished block, brayer, inking, paper placement, print, watercolor, and final series. kozo. arches. stonehenge. paper.
Woodcut—occasionally known as xylography—is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges. The areas to show 'white' are cut away with a knife or chisel, leaving the characters or image to show in 'black' at the original surface level. The block is cut along the grain of the wood (unlike wood engraving where the block is cut in the end-grain). In Europe beechwood was most commonly used[citation needed]; in Japan, a special type of cherry wood was used[citation needed].

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.

Multiple colors can be printed by keying the paper to a frame around the woodblocks (where a different block is used for each color). The art of carving the woodcut can be called "xylography", but this is rarely used in English for images alone, although that and "xylographic" are used in connection with blockbooks, which are small books containing text and images in the same block. Single-leaf woodcut is a term for a woodcut presented as a single image or print, as opposed to a book illustration.

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[enzoJaniro]

Very helpful demonstration. Thanks! Keep up the good work!

[kevinflory]

@enzoJaniro

Great! I'm glad it helped. Yeah I have bigger pieces in progress. Thanks.

[masterbeertheatre]

@GROOVY846

not paying attention to the content, or simply a troll which I just fed?

[GROOVY846]

I dont like OWS Liberals who think they are artists..

[jeweldlt]

Nice, I'm taking a printmaking class and this gave me a few ideas and tips for class. I'll definetly be trying out using the watercolor after it dries, I liked the effect it gave in your pieces! Thanks for sharing!

[Blissfulthings]

Very nice! I wish I had the space to do this

I love the end result thanks for sharing

[kevinflory]

@nequillim

I've done both. But this time with the larger blocks I did do a projection.

[teaandtulips]

your art gallery show was awesome. keep up the good work. looking forward to your next show. thanks for the tutorial... a whole lot of carving going on