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The fourth exchange had a
theme - self portrait. I swallowed hard before
signing up for it - doing a face in a woodblock
print is a very difficult job indeed. I found a way
through the puzzle though, by taking a photograph,
breaking it up into 'tone levels' on my Macintosh,
and then making it as a 'reduction' print, in which
the block is cut away piece by piece during
the printing process. The lightest portions are
printed first, with the printing areas of the block
gradually getting smaller and smaller as you go
along, until the last step is the printing of the
deepest tones. The block is destroyed in the
process, so there will never be any more of these
made ...
(click image for a larger
version in a 'popup' window)
The farther away you stand, the better it looks
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