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Interns are involved in all activities at the Printshop—the largest and oldest openly accessible printmaking studio in New York City. The Printshop’s busy studios host 140 artists in residence, 30 classes and workshops each year, several exhibitions, lectures and artists’ talks, and the Printshop participates in the annual New York Print Week and Editions/Artists’ Books Fair. …

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Reduction Linocut process

Mariann Johansen-Ellis

Sherrie York "Magpie Waits," reduction linocut, 6" x 9"

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Reduction linocut process by Doug Thomas

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Group of Men and Women c. 1545-47, chiaroscuro woodcut by Domenico Beccafumi.

Diogenes, chiaroscuro woodcut by Ugo da Carpi c. 1527. After Parmigianino.

Courtyard with Renaissance Architecture c.1550. Chiaroscuro woodcut by Erasmus Loy.

Antonio Maria Zanetti, Study of an Old Man after Parmigianino,1723

Abraham Bloemaert, The Holy Family, Chiaroscuro woodcut, 3 9/16 × 3 in,

The Printed Image in the West: Woodcut Chiaroscuro Woodcuts The earliest colored woodcuts were intended to imitate the appearance of a type of drawing on colored paper known as chiaroscuro, much sought after by collectors. In these drawings, the colored paper served as the middle tone, and the artist worked toward the light (chiaro) by adding highlights with white gouache, and toward the dark (scuro) by adding crosshatching in pen or a dark wash with a brush. The chiaroscuro woodcut, invented in Germany by Hans Burgkmair around 1509, was created by printing a line block—which carried the contours and crosshatching, and could sometimes stand alone as a black and white woodcut—together with one or more tone blocks. If there were only one tone block, it would print a mid-tone that would function in the same way as the colored paper did in the drawings. Where more than one tone block was used, it was possible to suggest levels of shading, as in a wash drawing. Where the blocks had been cut away, the paper would remain unprinted, and these white areas would serve as the highlights.

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