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• Other carving techniques:
  • Cutting the hair on ukiyo-e prints
• Other printing techniques:
  • Embossing
  • Basic Gradation Printing
  • Gradation printing example - (short photo essay)
  • Printing a curved gradation
  • The Chinese Printing Method
  • Adding a 'Seal' to your print
  • Printing with Metal Powders
  • A 'Scattered Gold' Background
  • Printing with Mica Powder
  • Printing a Mica Background
  • Gradation Printing
• One-point lessons:
  • General:
    • Reducing block warpage.
  • Printing tools:
    • Brush hair length
    • Using shims in the baren
    • The 'sandpaper' baren
    • Baren Miscellania ...
  • Pigments and paste:
    • Making bokuju (sumi 'juice')
    • Storing pigment in alcohol
  • The Printing Process:
    • Using 'nagura' on the blocks
    • Re-inking blocks
    • Reinforcing the 'Kento' corner
    • 'Locking' the paper in place
    • Order of sheets when printing
    • Avoiding brush 'lines'
    • Maintaining consistent colour
    • Getting the block warmed up for printing
    • 'Flipping' sheets during printing
    • Printing very delicate colours
    • Protecting the paper from 'sagging'
    • Cleaning fresh 'blots' from prints
    • Making paper 'soft' for printing
    • Some 'bounce' in the woodblocks
    • Moistening the printing brush
  • Carving tools:
    • Sharpening narrow chisels
    • Making sharpening stones for curved chisels
    • Making sharpening stones for curved chisels (part two)
    • Reducing knife breakage
  • The Carving Process:
    • How deep to carve
    • Recessed registration marks
    • Block shrinkage trouble ...
    • Avoiding 'kento' stains ...
  • Troubleshooting:
    • Dealing with shrunken colour blocks
    • Removing prints from a glued backing