More Café Woodcut experimenting

I bought a trial pack of Japanese papers to try with the woodcut I'm working on. Here I'm using a lightbox to see under the Japanese paper to print I did a couple of days ago that is now dry. I've stuck down cut-out pieces of colour tissue paper which I'm then going to print over the top of.

This is how the Japanese paper sample (Kozu shi) looks with the coloured tissue paper without the lightbox behind.

Once I've inked up the woodcut block and laid the paper faced down over the top, I'm now using a barren to apply pressure and create the print. This is a Kean relief baren, made using lots of tiny ball bearings, which I'm trying out.

 

Trying out Kitakata paper.

working on a new chine collé woodcut...

I painted the plywood block with a thinned down layer of red paint to make it easier to see what I'm doing when I carve into it. This colour will not show up on the print.

This print idea has been very inspired by all the torrential, non-stop rain we've been having over the last few months here in the south of England.

This is the block all inked-up and ready to print.

Some initial experimenting with coloured tissue paper.