Once the desired color is achieved complete your artwork with an artistic edge or paper. If the preset colors chosen for your work are not to your liking, there is the option to alter your palette colors.
Choose from a range of bold chisled outlines, and bright to subtle color combinations. Presets are also available to give your project a quick start. Using sliders found on the adjust tab you can control the smoothness, width and strength of the chiseled outline to fit your composition. The outlines in Moku Hanga are extremely eye catching, replicating a hand chiseled relief-art. The Moku Hanga app, Moku the Japanese word for “wood” while hanga is known as “print”, allows you to create an artistic wood-block print from any picture or snapshot - no need for time consuming carving - the artists from JixiPix do all the work for you! With the power to fully customize your Moku Hanga, you can create a masterpiece artistic enough be part of printmaking history! Breathtaking landscapes, beautiful women, and busy cityscapes can be transformed into this exotic art known for flowing hand-chiseled outlines and brushed on color. Much lighter than western papers, washi is made using long kozo plant fibers which impart strength for dozens of color layers and provides a unique inner “glow” to the final print.You've discovered the fascinating art of Moku Hanga, the Japanese method of wood-block printing. Printed on Japanese Washi paper While not specifically required, Japanese washi is designed to be perfect for mokuhanga.By using the baren, the printer is able to vary pressure on the fly, allowing for unique printed effects and variations. Mokuhanga instead uses a unique rubbing disk called a baren where pressure is applied across the block using the printer’s own hand pressure. Pressed by hand with Baren Western prints usually require a very large printing press to pull even, consistent, prints.This allows for painterly effects, textures and curved gradations that would be impossible with a brayer. Ink applied with Brush Instead of using a brayer to apply ink, in mokuhanga, ink is mixed directly on the block with rice starch using a wide brush.Water based pigments can also be easily cleaned without the use of solvents. Water Based Inks Unlike the oil based inks generally used in other relief print methods, mokuhanga uses water based pigments which have a unique soft glow similar to watercolors.As use of this term is beginning to gain wider attention outside of Japan, I would like to pose a few points which I think sets the medium apart from other relief printmaking methods. More recently, this medium has begun to gain international popularity due to its non-toxic, natural materials which don’t require the use of a heavy printing press and are perfect for a home studio. The term Mokuhanga (Moku = wood, hanga = print) was used to describe the Japanese method of woodblock printing that was widely popular during the Edo Period (1603-1868) and the primary medium for Ukiyo-e. This year for Print Day In May I want to ask a simple question, what is Mokuhanga?
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