Nori: Paste to keep pigment in suspension made of rice, potato or tapioca.

Nishiki-e: Multi-coloured woodblock printing.Moku hanga:Japanese for woodblock prints.Ita-bokashi: 'block shading' a technique for producing gradation achieved by sanding or abrading the edges of the carving.Hanshita: The drawings used as a guide to later carving.Keyblock: Roughly, line blocks often containing color.Chūban: a print size about 7 by 10 inches (18 by 25 cm).Bokashi: A graduated color impression often seen in traditional ukiyo-e print backgrounds.Beta ban: A flat, consistent color block.Baren-suji: Impression marks made with a baren- intentional or not.Baren: The traditional printmaking 'pad' that is used by manually pressing the inked block.Hanga bake have long handles, maru (round) bake resemble shoe brushes. Bake(hanga or maru): traditional Japanese printing brushes made of horse or hog hair.I’ve noticed that this reconstituting doesn’t work as well with commercial tube watercolors since there is gum added and it results in a grainy texture. I’m also not quite sure that the step of pushing the pigment through the sieve is necessary since the ground particles are much finer than the screen.Īfter printing, mixing bowls are left to dry around the printing desks and are reconstituted (unless starch paste had been added) by simply adding a little water and stirring with the tokibo without apparent problems. I was a little suprised at the Ultramarine since it is a mineral pigment. I suspect that this will result in less hard-won pigment being lost and may go a bit faster.Īs of several days later, both the Ultramarine and the Indigo did not separate to clear water. Mokuhankan is planning to compare this traditional method of grinding pigments with using a western-style glass muller/ glass slab combination. The idea of keeping a selection of pigments stored in ‘paste’ form in an alcohol/water mix is discussed in ‘One-Point Lesson’ #6 in another section of the Encyclopedia. Additional references: Preparing powdered pigments can be found in a “Tools and Materials” section David Bull’s Encyclopedia article.You can achieve simple to exaggerated color results using this process.

The cool thing about this style is the ability to 'Randomize Colors' throughout your artwork and the ability to replace any or all of these colors, using the full-spectrum color picker. By adjusting the 'Image Color' slider you can reduce or add colors to your artwork giving it a variety of printed-styles, from a full-color block process to spot-color ones.The Multi-Block style uses 5 blocks of color pulled from your original image then divides the colors across your artwork giving the look of carving a separate woodblock for every color. The Multi-Color style uses all the original colors in your photo. Choose between two printing styles: 'Multi-Color' or 'Multi-Block'. Control the color in your artwork with saturation, strength and image color sliders. Adjust the outline width, strength and how smooth or fluid your chiseled outline appears. In printmaking the final image does rely on the choice of paper whether it is kozo fibers or rice paper this will add an artistic quaility to your print and complete your Moku Hanga.Moku Hanga Features: Automatically create a work of art with the look of hand chiseled outlines and brushed on color, fully adjustable with simple sliders. Once the desired color is achieved complete your artwork with an artistic edge or paper. If the preset colors chosen for your work are not to your liking, there is the option to alter your palette colors. Choose from a range of bold chisled outlines, and bright to subtle color combinations.

Using sliders found on the adjust tab you can control the smoothness, width and strength of the chiseled outline to fit your composition.Presets are also available to give your project a quick start. Breathtaking landscapes, beautiful women, and busy cityscapes can be transformed into this exotic art known for flowing hand-chiseled outlines and brushed on color.The Moku Hanga app, Moku the Japanese word for wood while hanga is known as print, allows you to create an artistic wood-block print from any picture or snapshot no need for time consuming carving the artists from JixiPix do all the work for you! With the power to fully customize your Moku Hanga, you can create a masterpiece artistic enough be part of printmaking history!The outlines in Moku Hanga are extremely eye catching, replicating a hand chiseled relief-art. Launch Special!! 33% off!You've discovered the fascinating art of Moku Hanga, the Japanese method of wood-block printing.

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