Woodblock printing

About this app

A Japanese colour woodblock print after Hokusai's "Great Wave" is built up pass by pass: key block first, then a separate mirror-inverted block for each colour, inked, laid against the registration marks (kentō) and rubbed with the baren. Layers can be switched off one by one, the registration marks removed and the stack of blocks and colour layers opened. The picture only exists in the stack; each block carries a single colour.

Subject: Art

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