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Before her studies she was already well known for her humorous miniature wood-carving (in 1937 she was awarded Golden Medal at the World Exhibition in Paris for her miniatures Jēcis, The Sheperd, Gypsy’s Dance, Dog Catchers, Encounter. She also received awards at the 1st exhibition of applied arts in Riga and at the exhibition of handicraft ...
David Bull (born 11 November 1951) is a Canadian ukiyo-e woodblock printer and carver who heads the Mokuhankan studio in Asakusa, Tokyo. [1] [2] Born in Britain, Bull moved to Canada at the age of 5. He first discovered Japanese woodblocks while working in a music shop in 1980 in Toronto, at 28, and started making his own prints without formal ...
The Four Horsemen c. 1496–98 by Albrecht Dürer, depicting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Woodcut 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.
Chronicle Miniatures was a competitor run by Nick Lund. It was bought out by Citadel and they continued to operate under that name for a time. Iron Claw Miniatures were a range of miniatures designed, manufactured and distributed by Citadel in 1987 and 1988 and sculpted by Bob Olley. Many of the designs were later incorporated into the main ...
The earliest extant example of this type of printed matter is a fragment of a dhāraṇī (Buddhist spell) miniature scroll written in Sanskrit unearthed in a tomb in Xi'an. It is called the Great spell of unsullied pure light ( Wugou jingguang da tuoluoni jing 無垢淨光大陀羅尼經) and was printed using woodblock during the Tang dynasty ...
Héco Modèles or Heco Miniatures – or NIKKI – handbuilt 1:43 resin figures, dioramas, and cars (incl. various related brands such as Challange), specializing in French scenes and cars of the classic streamlined era; Heller SA – French / German producer of kits. Herpa – German 1:87 (HO) and 1:120 scale (TT) plastic. Both kits and assembled.
A low relief carving of a Viking ship Carving tools and a mallet. In wood carving relief carving is a type in which figures or patterns are carved in a flat panel of wood; the same term is also used for carving in stone, ivory carving and various other materials. The figures project only slightly from the background rather than standing freely.
Félix Vallotton, La raison probante (The Cogent Reason), woodcut from the series Intimités, (1898) Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Portrait of Otto Müller, 1915. Woodcut, a type of relief print, is the earliest printmaking technique.