Well-known illustrator of books and broadsides demonstrates the main points of wood-engraving from the drawing to printing by hand. 1982. 56 Min. Color. ISBN 1-56235-663-1 Full Text Transcript
Multi-talented and skilled artist, designer, and book publisher uses acid to bite deeply into a zinc plate, then inks and prints.
Intermittently, the tape includes her talk about publishing and collaborating
with theater artists. 1982. 62 Min. Color. ISBN 1-56235-667-4
Janet Yang:
Printing Hanga
Janet Yang, master of design and several traditional printmaking
and new technology prints, demonstrates how she uses Japanese
creative woodcut printing. Transcript.
Four-part demonstration with brief history included, showing all aspects of the process. 1991. 75 Min. Color.
Kuroski Prints!
A First for Seattle
On a stage in front of an audience, famous artist is taped live while printing a series from hand-cut blocks. 1978. 54 min. Color. Transcript available on-line.
Renown artist from Japan shows printing a small woodcut using special dampened paper and water-based ink. Also he reveals his registration method and printing tool. 1980. 29 Min. Color. Transcript available on-line.
Kurosaki:
Watercolors for Woodcuts
Making pigments for water-based Japanese woodcut printing from dry pigment, gum arabic and water. 1981. 12 Min. Color. Transcript available on-line.
Emphasis on knives, sharpening, using with veneer block and electric router. 1980. 43 Min. Color. Transcript available on-line.
Printing a woodcut:
The Japanese Way
Art teacher sets up a one-person videotaping session of himself printing in the Asian method, and adds
phony bystanders' questions, tongue-in-cheek. 1974. 22 Min. B&W. Free Transcript available on-line.
Image from the videotape, his art, and the artist in action
