Woodblock Printing Process - A Japan Journey

Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker David Bull narrates a video showing the step-by-step process of making one of the woodblock prints in the 2019 subscription series ’A Japan Journey’, designed by Jed Henry. This image is the August print - Summer Tea Fields - and is being made by our young printer Natsuki Suga. Subscription information: The Mokuhankan Twitch channel: The Patreon: The Mokuhankan website: Note: although the series is being produced one by one during the course of 2019, we intend to keep the set of prints in production for many years, so if you are coming to this page at some future date, it should still be available! 00:00 Introduction 02:06 1/10 - Background Orange 03:35 2/10 - Keyblock 04:34 3/10 - Sky Blue and Shadows 05:49 4/10 - Green 07:13 5/10 - Shadows 08:26 6/10 - More Shadows 09:29 7/10 - Darker Green 10:48 8/10 - Tree Shadows 11:35 9/10 - Foreground Shadows 12:32 10/10 - Blue Sky Gradation 13:49 11/10 - Embossing 14:11 Slideshow