Dirk Hagner is a printmaker who often works in woodcut. He works large-scale, using sheets of wood that have a grain that is intact – he doesn’t use MDF or any other processed types of wood because he wants the grain to be a part of his artwork. He considers woodcut to be a collaboration between the artist and the materials, he lets the wood guide his gauges so that the image flows. In the specific work I chose (Portrait of Jacques Prevert) Hagner uses contrasting thicker lines and thinner lines and rounded cuts as well as some cross hatching to create depth and highlights, he also leaves the background completely exposed to the ink as he prints darker and darker so that the imagery fades into the background. His process for printing doesn’t