Now, we're going to look at some specific techniques for removing material from the
wood block. Okay as I remove material from the surface, I'm thinking about how all of
these marks being white lines on the surface of the paper. So, by placing a bunch of carve
marks next to each other, what I'm really creating is more less a value on the paper
surface that would print as a bunch of white and black lines next to each other which would
create kind of a grey back drop here and I'm going to do this in these areas to show a
since of light using the gouge and cutting with the grain in one direction and then to
enhance that value, I'm going to go against the grain here creating a cross hatch.
Every cut essentially abstracts the image a little bit as well. So, the simpler your
image is to begin with, probably the better off you're going to be a simple black and
white graphic image. What I'm doing is essentially abstracting a photograph creating a since
of light just by marks and cuts. As we take a look at the photographic image, some of
the values that I've chosen as grey values are down here underneath this what appears
to be a bridge. This grey value here and I've also inside some marks pretty far apart from
one another that would create this perspective of the concrete as well and what I've be gone
to do now with the sky is take my v-gouge and I can turn the block and push the gouge
simultaneously and what would happen is I'm creating kind of a vango effect so to speak
of many of marks that kind of wave across the sky much like clouds do and that's really
simple technique. Where you grab the block and push the gouge and rotate just the block
and equal pressure with the gouge and it's very delicate. You don't have to push really
hard and remember we don't need to cut a whole lot out of the block as well. I'm going to
do that a few more times. And as you recall too, I've also taken a wire
brush and the interesting thing about wood is obviously the grain. If I rough up this
grain, it'll print. So, it'll also create a grey value and this just your standard steel
wire brush. To create some of these highlights as well in the sky, what I'm going to go back
through next to my curvy linear lines, I'll take little cuts along these curvy lines periodically
which will create a little sense of light. Remember my approach is a little bit more
abstract but I'm still trying to capture the sense of light in the sky by removing little
bits of wood.