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While taking health and safety precautions, are still able to ship orders within one business day in most cases. We endeavour to ship all items quickly and promptly, to as many destinations around the world as possible, and our dedicated team, Make sure to dry the brush before storing it. Hang the brush to dry or place it on a solid surface with the bristles hanging over the edge of the surface. Finally, wash the brush with soap and water, then rinse thoroughly.

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After singeing, dip the ends of the bristles in water then run it firmly over a dragon skin sanding sheet or any similar sanding sheet. Hold the brush with its bristles touching the pan surface. To split the ends of this brush, first, singe the ends of the bristles using a pan over a hot plate. Once the paint is evenly distributed, it is ready for printing. Spread the paint and paste in a small, side to side, or backward and forward stroke (depending on what is a more comfortable motion for you), then gradually moving around the woodblock until the paint is spread throughout the woodblock.

To use this paint Brush for woodblock relief painting, place the paint and the paste on the woodblock, then using the brush, mix the paint and paste on the surface of the woodblock. Also available in 20mm & 24mm sizes (sold separately). The other prints are entitled “Leafy Lullabies” (the crow is listening to, and looking for bugs under the leaves), and “Chrysanthemum” (inspired by a Hirosado print and an image of my niece).This Japanese style printmaking brush, made from horsehair, is sewn in a long, wooden handle, perfect for moving pigment and paste across the woodblock reliefs, or any other paint activity. The first, “Breakfast Bee?” (the nuthatch and the bee), is in the Wingtip Press 2019 Leftovers print exchange. Here are my first prints using this process.

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San Francisco-based Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) selected Berkeley artist Miwako Nishizawa, born in Kyoto Japan, to create pieces for its 2016 poster art series using the moku hanga woodblock technique.

McClains Printmaking Supplies is a good source for tools, blocks, and books about the process.Ĭarving can take a long time, but it’s an opportunity for contemplation, for “being in the moment” with your image, and the blocks eventually become works of art, along with the prints. As the images are all hand-pulled, moku hanga prints don’t need a press, and using water-based inks makes this for an easy clean-up.

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For multiple colors, multiple blocks are carved, with exact registration (kento) marks on each block. To make a print, the block’s surface is saturated with water color and nori paste, and then slightly dampened paper is laid down and pressed with a buren. The image, a type of relief print, is produced by carving away everything except the lines to be printed. In modern times the images may have changed, but the process remains much the same, and its simplicity is very appealing, requiring not much more than a block of wood, a cutting tool (gouge), ink, and paper.

Moku hanga is a traditional Japanese form of woodblock printmaking notable for black outlines, vibrant colors, and angled perspectives (think of Hokusai and Hirosada).

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