#woodblock print

[the-cricket-chirps]

Imao Keinen

Crow and Cherry Blossoms

ca. 1930s

#Imao Keinen #japanese prints #japanese artist #japanese art #woodcut #woodblock print #crow #birds #bird art #beautiful birds #animals in art #wildlife #wild birds #asian art #animal art #vintage animals #art history #aesthetictumblr #tumblraesthetic #tumblrpic #tumblrpictures #tumblr art #aesthetic #beauty

[nobrashfestivity]

Shiko Munakata Fox Among Flowers, 1955

#Shiko Munakata #woodcut #japanese art #woodblock print #ukiyoe #color woodblock #japanese

[beifongkendo]

Botanical designs from One Hundred Newly Selected Designs by Kōrin (Kōrin shinsen hyakuzu), 1864.

#ukiyo-e #woodblock print #ogata kōrin #edo #botanical #plants #flowers #botanical drawing

[confusedmasterpiece]

Dark Water, different states, test prints and experiments

Cherrywood block prints, ink on various papers

Note: Many things go on doing woodblock prints for me. I understand that most people simply are going for a specific image created by carving any number of different blocks and printing them as part of the same image and while i'm interested in that too, I also think of many of these images are multiple prints to be displayed sequentially. Like a little movie, I like seeing the decay of an image like the world is catching on fire and you're seeing things melting.

In addition to this, I like how you can change the idea of the print by adding or subtracting a piece of the image by choose to add or subtract one of the blocks. I don't feel totally successful at this yet, but all the crazy prints are sort of me working against the precision of woodblock cutting and trying to some more modern art type feels in. I throw many of these away but sometimes I hit on some kind of sequence I like and that makes a series that I think works and would, in theory be displayed together.

So i try things, I print on different kinds of paper, wet and dry, different inks, sometimes I do a mono print and print over it, or hand color an area later. If I mess up I always try to do something interesting with the mistake. I am not great at many aspects of this, but I thought I would explain why you see so many seemingly ruined images. The idea came from looking at old Asian calligraphy and frescoes in Italy where the wearing of the image becomes part of what you like about it.

An acting teacher once told me that the audience is forced to be more engaged with something that is harder to understand, like an actor with an odd accent or speech impediment. Having to listen harder makes the audience engaged and more interested. I feel that way about looking sometimes. Looking for something that'd hard to see can be rewarding in a different way.

Okay I promise to never write about my art again.

#artists on tumblr #confused masterpiece #woodblock print #ink #other than to say art looks wretched on tumblr

[the-evil-clergyman]

Two Kittens by Kawano Kaoru (1950's)

#kawano kaoru #art #woodblock prints #shin hanga #fine art #1950s #1950s art #showa era #showa period #woodblock print #japanese art #japanese artist #nature art #animals #cats #kittens #asian art #classic art

[psikonauti]

Hitoshi Karasawa (Japanese,b.1950)

Deluge, 1990 

woodblock print 

#Hitoshi Karasawa #upl #va #art #prints #woodcut #woodblock #woodblock print #woodcut print #fave

[lionofchaeronea]

Snow at the Ukimido, Katada, Tsuchiya Koitsu, 1934

#art #art history #Asian art #Japan #Japanese art #East Asia #East Asian art #shin-hanga #woodblock print #Tsuchiya Koitsu #landscape #landscape art #snow #winter #winter scene #Showa period #Showa era #20th century art

[cainhowlett]

7 months of carving coming to an end, I lost some details and added some. I love and need to see the prints, but honestly, the block is the final art piece for me. It’s what I spend all my time with and each one has a segment of my life attached with it.

Shina woodblock

#nature #art #california #mendocino #sonoma #bay area #ink #printmaking #illustration #mokuhanga #ukiyoe #woodblock print #forest #木版画 #picoftheday #relief print #trees #woodblock #alders #salmon #fish #coho

[catsofyore]

The tiniest frown. Ca. 1950s. Source.

#cat #cats #catsofyore #kitten #tabby #woodblock #woodblock print #japanese woodblock #grompy

[jstor]

Bats and sycamore leaves*, a woodblock print by an unidentified Japanese artist ca. 1900. From the Taubman Museum of Art collection on JSTOR, featuring 1,701 freely accessible images of artworks, no login needed!

*What kind of leaves did you think they were, huh?

#bats #woodblock print #japanese art #japanese prints #release the bats #jstor

[masterpeaces-of-japanese-culture]

Famous Heroes of the Kabuki Stage Played by Frogs, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 19th century

#ukiyoe #japanese art #japanese prints #woodblock printing #japanese woodblock #ukiyo-e #woodblock print #woodblock art

[the-cricket-chirps]

Ohara Koson

Magpie with Pink and White Magnolia Blossoms

Shôwa period, circa 1931

#ohara koson #japanese prints #japanese artist #japanese art #woodcut #woodblock print #asian art #birds #bird art #beautiful birds #wild birds #wildlife #magnolia #magpie #art history #aesthetictumblr #tumblraesthetic #tumblrpic #tumblrpictures #tumblr art #aesthetic #beauty

[nobrashfestivity]

Naoko Matsubara, Pine, 1971

woodcut

#Naoko Matsubara #japanese art #woodblock print #ukiyoe #color woodblock #japanese #woodcut

[beifongkendo]

Kojima Island, woodblock print by unknown artist, ca. 1890-1920.

#ukiyo-e #woodblock print #kojima #island #ocean #sea #waves #beach #meiji #japanese art

[confusedmasterpiece]

Iterations of Apparition on the Shore

Woodblocks prints, Watercolor and metallic inks, Nori, chalk, with decorations in colored pencil on Awagami paper

#artists on tumblr #confused masterpiece #woodblock print #art

[the-evil-clergyman]

Fireflies in the Early Summer by Watanabe Shoka (19th Century)

#watanabe shoka #art #ukiyo-e #woodblock prints #fine art #19th century #19th century art #edo era #edo period #woodblock print #japanese art #japanese artist #nature art #fireflies #insects #summer #asian art #classic art