This is a mock up for a woodcut I am doing. In fact, this is the woodcut before I begin to cut it and prepare for printmaking. The woodblock looked boring so I knew for arts sake I would have to do some digital experimenting to see where I could take this woodcut. So it would be something different, hours and hours of cutting can be tedious enough, but getting a mediocre result is devastating. So, I this girl is one of my muses from when I was a photographer in London. I took a photograph of her I had and layered it with the woodcut.

After merging the two pictures I then made the girl 40% Transparent, then I went to filters and did her on poster edge filter. After which I coloured the whole plate green (transparant of about 36%. Then I brushed the eyes with blue at 36% transparancy.

After that I changed the size, oh I forgot to mention I changed the size of the initial photograph to fit the scale of the piece of wood. I need this image so that I can copy the girl onto the wood in hand with pencil. But before doing that I find photoshop and invaluable took because as an artist it allows me to look at where to place the eyes before laying a knife to the piece of wood.

Digital photography and photoshop have made printmaking an even more enjoyable experience for me. BillyLee