Medieval Woodcut Illumination
Illustration · Woodcut · Medieval
Recipe
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An early printed woodcut illustration, hand coloured. A great wheel with an eye at its centre surrounded by small symbolic creatures, clouds and stars, drawn as a carved black outline with cross hatched shading. Flat hand applied colour in ochre, dull red and sage that strays outside the lines in places. Symbolic rather than accurate perspective, confident naive figure drawing, a decorative ruled border with small emblems in the corners. Toned foxed paper.
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Recommended settings
- Size
- 1365 x 1024
- Quality
- High
- Background
- Opaque
- Output
- PNG
Tips
- 1Colour straying outside the lines is the detail that proves it was coloured by hand after printing.
- 2Symbolic perspective, meaning scale by importance rather than distance.
- 3Cross hatching does the shading. No tonal washes.
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