The Lion Print

Printmaking is an art of carving an image out of a wood block or plate, inking the carved section and placing it on a sheet of fabric. It is important because back then when it was first invented it was used to tell stories in art form. Books, artwork, and cultural clothing was made. It traveled all over the world and became so many different types of printmaking for all different people. I really like this print because the lion is a very strong animal but is portrayed as a gentle one. The fish scale cheeks and ears and the leaf texture nose is very gorgeous to me. I noticed that the fur on the animal if very detailed and every part of the lion comes out as a different shade of white. I wonder how they did that. Did they roll it on and remove some ink from some places or did they put the ink on piece by piece.