Use more advanced tracing features in Inkscape to create artistic portraits. These portraits will be engraved on wood and printed on canvas using a printing press. The printed canvas will then be stretched on a frame built by students. To tighten the canvas, students will paint the background to create a finished product. Created for […]
Reviews the process of making prints that are hand burnished with a barren or run through the printing press. The relief blocks we use to make the prints are engraved on the laser or we can use the Shaper Origin handheld CNC router to carve them from SVG files designed in Inkscape. Check out my […]
Wee to another woodcut printmaking project! This block printing video goes through carving with a laser, inking a block, and printing the final image. I don’t think I’ll ever stop hand-carving, but I can definitely see cases where this would be great for detailed areas, or text! Join the Diode Pressmunity and share your work! […]
