(3) Printing and pressing

As a typical method to carry colors and shapes vertically to the surface of the paper, printing and pressing are considered.

Printing has been an important technique to mass-produce patterns in many countries since ancient days. To print, a pattern form is necessary first. The work of creating the form takes more time compared to direct writing. However, we have to accept it for the purpose of mass production in order to generate many of the same shapes. On that occasion, in addition to the mass production of shapes, you must not miss the occurrence of the peculiar modeling effects coming from pressing as well as the sensitivity of the hard edges of the form.

(i) Frottage

In many cases, a form is placed on printing material, and it is pressed vertically from the upper direction.

There are frottage and wood engravings in which these relations are reversed. A piece of paper is placed on the form, and a copy is made by press pressing the paper. In wood engraving, paints are put on the form. In contrast, in the frottage, unevenness and textures of the bottom are copied as a pattern by scratching the top of the paper using pencils, contes, crayons, and others as a paints.

The forms are sometimes tree bark, the veins of a leaf, the skin of a crocodile, and woven cloths. Since the unevenness is copied onto a piece of paper, of course, selections of goods for frottage and colors are a part of the modeling plan.
 
 

617 618   619   Figure 617: Frontage by a wooden board and a crayon. Figure 618: Illustration of a fish by frontage. Figure 619: Collage by frontage thin paper (see color illustration 41).

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