This is a woodcut of the Holy Ghost Catholic church in Basingstoke. It is part of a series of four woodcuts of Basingstoke churches made for the Artikinesis Basingstoke Project.
Before I started cutting into the wood, I drew the design on the block in pencil.
The uninked block, cut from a 30x30cm plywood square using hand chisels such as the one illustrated. Can you see the glaring mistake?
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The inked up block |
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The mistake is more obvious now.
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My second test print. For some reason, the first print off of a wood block never quite turns out right. |
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But my mistake - in forgetting to reverse the image and the writing - was the same in both test prints...
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