14 September 2010
White Line Woodcuts in Cleveland - Mabel Hewit
Printmaker Ruth Hogan talks about white-line color woodcut techniques as practiced by Cleveland artist Mabel Hewit in this video from Cleveland Museum of Art. The exhibit of Mabel Hewit's work is on view now through October 24, 2010.
Click here for an article about the show with more background about Hewit's life.
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8 comments:
I love the soft look of white line.
Thanks so much for this! Do you know anything about what kind of ink she used and how she inked the blocks?
Thanks, and I'm sorry if I already asked you this question a few years ago, because I think you have posted something before about this technique.
Hi Dusty,
I haven't done much with this method myself, but my understanding is that the white line printmakers use watercolor paints which are applied with regular paintbrushes.
Hi Annie !
Very interesting to read...and she deserves to be seen on the museum....I like her modernist style, and she knew how to compose a good picture...intersting to see the video of the printmaker Ruth Hogan who uses the white-line herself....and also to read the article where she is placed into her artistic age and the influence from the other styles/forms of art...I really like her compressed compositions very much...
Thanks Annie! I am of course very interested in white line. It was your blog that first introduced me to white line printmaking and printmakers. I would be interested to know how many artists on this side of the Mississippi practice white line printmaking.
Anita, thank you for your comment. I agree with you about Hewit's compositions and simple forms being so beautiful.
Viza, I didn't know that you first heard about white line here! That's so cool. I haven't tried it to any great extent yet, but I'll be coming to you for advice when I do!
Annie I read your post about wanting to branch out to other sorts of artistic endeavors. I can't wait to see where you go from here. One of the things i love about white line printing is that although it would take longer to make a sizable edition you can get out lots more one off prints. Sometimes as a printmaker i get so backlogged on my ideas i forget them or even forget where i wrote them down because each print can take so long to complete.
Thanks, Annie!
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