Article · Tanuki Prints
The Process in a Nutshell
By John Amoss
- Type
- Article
- Level
- All levels
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2018
About this lesson
Walks through a working mokuhanga printmaker's whole pipeline: tool and pigment prep, design and colour separation, block lamination and carving, paper dampening and printing, and binding. Shows how a many-block, many-colour print is organised.
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