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Saturday, March 17, 2012

The beginning of an encaustic woodcut

This morning, couldn't wait to make a start, so was in my studio in dressing gown and slippers, working on this plate. Only the beginning, but hopefully will develop during the day after using a few more processes.

As it was still dark, the flash disturbs the centre a bit, but will see it more clearly as I work on it. I really like the chatter marks from the very flexible scraper I used. When I fuse, it will need to be very light so they are retained.

2 comments:

  1. Can't wait to see the finished print. Do you print the woodcut first, then apply encaustic to the paper? (I enjoy your Blog and appreciate the effort.)

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  2. Hello Lynn, Thanks for your comment. This is actually the block. Am trying to print from them as well. Just taking a bit of tweeking to get the temperature right on the hotplate.

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