When I was visiting Japan in 2022, I did one week art residency at Karuizawa Mokuhanga school where I learnt the fundamentals of the mokuhanga tecnique (water based woodcut). And, I produced the print shown below:
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I used Holbein gouache for colour, and printed on Kitaro's Student Hankusa paper (a type of washi).
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Images of the process and the lovely studio:
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