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Woodblock Printmaking Demonstrations by Different Artists.

Woodblock Printmaking
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In a time when many artists go the easy way and have art produced by a computer, there are nevertheless still many printmakers who create art prints in the old way like centuries ago by carving the image with a knife into a wooden block. They call their way of printmaking 'moku hanga' - from the Japanese words 'moku' (block) and 'hanga' (print). This page is a index to several text-, image- and video-demonstrations of Japanese, Western and Chinese artists how to make a woodblock print the old traditional way.
Woodblock Printmaking Demonstrations

Printmaking - Part I Relief Printmaking Techniques.

Printmaking - Part I
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This article explains the different techniques in printmaking and explains the relief techniques woodcut, wood engraving and linocut.
Printmaking - Relief Printing

Chinese Reduction Woodblock Prints Multicolor Woodblocks from One Block.

Chinese Reduction Woodblock Prints
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Over the last decades a new technique how to create a multicolor woodblock print has emerged and become widely used by Chinese printmakers. The process is called reduction woodblock printing or sometimes also no-waste printing. All colors are printed just out of one block which is recarved for each color. Thus the original block is destroyed during the creation process and further copies beyond the first edition are impossible.
Chinese Reduction Woodblock Prints

Paul Binnie - Printing Methods Illustration

Paul Binnie - Printing Methods
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This page presents a series of photographs showing in detail how the artist Paul Binnie created the woodblock print 'Ho-o no Yume'. Paul Binnie uses traditional Japanese methods, materials and tools that he learned during a stay in Japan of more than 5 years under the guidance of experienced master carvers and printers.
Paul Binnie Printing Methods

Japanese Woodblock Printing with Paul Binnie Tradition and Modernity

Japanese Woodblock Printing with Paul Binnie
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Paul Binnie (born 1967) was trained as a woodblock print maker in Tokyo in the early 1990s and has been making Japanese prints ever since. He now lives and works in London, but continues to use the same techniques as he did in Tokyo, which are a mix of very ancient block-printing practices derived from the traditional Ukiyo-e school and continued by the Shin-hanga publishers of the early 20th century, and some newer ideas derived from working within contemporary printmaking.
Japanese Woodblock Printing

How to Make a Woodblock Print By Tom Kristensen.

How to Make a Woodblock Print
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Tom Kristensen, born 1962, is a young artist from Australia who works in the tradition of Japanese woodblock printmaking. This page describes how he made his latest woodblock print titled "Currawongs, Lord Howe Island". Creating an original, hand-made woodblock print in Japanese traditional techniques is an effort that requires great skill, patience and time.
How to Make a Woodblock Print

How to Make a Woodblock - Sixth Week A Demonstration by Ryusei Okamoto

How to Make a Woodblock - Sixth Week
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This page is a modified reprint of a publication by Japanese printmaker Ryusei Okamoto. On these pages Mr. Ruysei Okamoto demonstrates how he makes one of his intricate woodblock prints. The artist used for the demonstration the design Temptation from the series White Fox.
How to Make a Woodblock Print - 5th Week