Posted on March 17, 2013 [Permalink]

Continued from [Arts of Japan #5 - 3] : block set finished | Starting point of the thread was [Arts of Japan #5 - 1] : carving begins!

So here we go ... printing on our fishing scene gets under way, starting with the key block:

This is not traditional ukiyo-e, with an outline around 'everything', but a reproduction of a painting, so at this point, there are many places in the image that remain undefined.

And the coloring begins ...

I've got 15 steps on my checklist at present; we'll see if that's actually how it works out in practice ...

The thread continues in [Arts of Japan #5 - 5] : printing steps 3~5 ...