What's the difference between watermark woodcut and mimeograph woodcut?

Traditionally, woodcut is a form of printmaking. A picture is carved on a board with a knife and then wiped with paper. The boards used are pear wood, boxwood and white peach wood. Woodcuts carved with longitudinal sections are called woodcuts with wooden faces, and woodcuts carved with transverse sections are called woodcuts with wooden mouths. The male sculpture with convex lines as the main body of the picture is called the female sculpture with concave lines as the main body of the picture. There is also a mixture of negative engraving and positive engraving.

Commonly known as woodcut? . This is the most popular printing type. A painting carved on a board with a knife and then wiped with paper; It is the earliest form of Chinese and foreign printmaking. The boards used are pear wood, boxwood, white peach and ginkgo wood. , and carved with the vertical face of the tree is called woodcut, and carved with the horizontal layout is called woodcut. A painting with more white and less black, mainly composed of convex lines, is called positive engraving; A painting with four lines as the main body, more black and less white, is called negative engraving; It can also be used alternately with negative engraving and positive engraving. Printing more than two colors on multiple boards is called overprinting woodcut.

Because of the different properties of pigments used in rubbing, they can be divided into mimeograph woodcut and watermark woodcut. What is the biggest feature of woodcut? Knife instead of paper? . This also determines that there are woodcuts? Simple, subtle and vivid? And other unique artistic effects. Because woodcut originated from the people, the tools are simple, the materials are easy to get, the pictures are random, and the production and preservation are convenient, so it can be widely popularized and applied, improved and developed. Because of the different properties of pigments used in rubbing, they can be divided into mimeograph woodcut and watermark woodcut.

In the past, woodcuts were mostly used to copy paintings, and the division of painting, engraving and printing was called copying woodcuts. Modern woodcut is made by the author's self-painting, self-engraving and self-printing, which gives full play to the unique artistic effect of knife woodcut and is called creative woodcut. Cherry blossoms are the best woodcut because the plate-making method is simple and the wood grain is straight. Woodblock prints using the longitudinal section of wood are prints with wood as the plate, because the wood used is different, such as bodhi tree and boxwood. The commonly used wood is cherry wood, which is the representative layout of letterpress printing and has long been very popular. As for wood carving, special solid steel bars should be used to make blades with different shapes. Contrary to painting, white lines (or wooden blocks) are carved on the black ground, and printmakers have to master this feature to produce woodcut characteristics different from strokes. Because the last rubbing on the paper is relative to the picture on the board, we should pay attention to the left-right relationship of the picture when drawing. If it is an original, it must be copied to the rigid version in turn; If you draft directly on the board, you must draft backwards, such as holding a pen in your left hand; Keep the car on the left, etc. So as to ensure that the picture is in a normal state after rubbing. After the draft is sent to the board, it is best to check the left-right relationship in front of the mirror.