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The Technique of the Color Wood-cut
The ideal of a water-color woodcut is no longer a feeble parody of the Japanese color-print that ceased two centuries ago; that color-print was the outcome of a democratic demand, and owed its success to its cheapness, though, strange as it may seem, elaboration sometimes brought it under the ban of the sumptuary laws.
http://www.sharecom.ca/phillips/technique.html
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Tugboat Printshop: Color Woodcut Process, How We Make Woodcut Prints
About Tugboat Printshop and artists Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth!
http://www.tugboatprintshop.com/INFO_process.htm
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Creating, cutting and printing your own woodblock
Here's the basic process for buying tools, cutting a woodblock, inking and then printing with it. I've actually been trying to find a way into printing for a while, but don't have any access locally to equipment or classes.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Creating-cutting-and-printing-your-own-woodblock/
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Woodcut, Art - Britannica
Technique of printing designs from planks of wood incised parallel to the vertical axis of the wood's grain. It is one of the oldest methods of making prints from a relief surface,...
http://www.britannica.com/art/woodcut
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Woodcuts: Printmaking Technique of Relief Printing
Woodcuts (Xylography): History, Origins, Types of Relief Printing, Famous Woodcut Printers and Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints.
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/printmaking/woodcuts.htm
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Woodcut Printing 1450-1520 - YouTube
The invention of printing allowed books and images to become household objects. Both could be reproduced quickly and in large numbers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgCYovlFRNY
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The Printed Image in the West: Woodcut - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Known in Japan from the eighth century, the technique of stamping from woodblocks was used to print textiles before it was applied to paper. A relief process, woodcuts are produced by inking a raised surface against which a piece of paper is pressed, either manually or by running it through a press, to create an image on the paper.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/wdct/hd_wdct.htm
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Woodcut Printmaking - Letterpress Commons
Woodcuts are relief printing plates made by carving marks in blocks of long grained planks or plywood. Long-grain refers to the grain following the direction of growth, i.e, parallel to the tree trunk/branch the piece of wood was cut from.
https://letterpresscommons.com/wood-cut/
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Printmaking Essentials: Carve and Print Your Own Woodblock
There are so many methods around today that we can use to print a picture. Though the majority of them are quicker and more efficient, some of us find fullness, tranquility, and artistic expression in the ancient art of hand printing that is unmatched by any other media.
http://crafts.tutsplus.com/tutorials/printmaking-essentials-carve-and-print-your-own-woodblock--craft-5477
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Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave) Edo Period (1615-1868) - Khan Academy
Read and learn for free about the following article: Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave).
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-asia/art-japan/edo-period/a/hokusai-under-the-wave-off-kanagawa-the-great-wave
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Woodcut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Woodcut, occasionally known as xylography, is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood - typically with gouges - leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodcut
