And the third one - the lines of the procession in the background:

With these three now done (although not yet tested together), the next main step in the process will be carving the colour blocks. To do that I of course have to study Jed's image and break it down into a set of separations. In Photoshop, that's easy; just hit the CMYK settings and you're done. For me, it is a bit more complicated!

A rudimentary woodblock is straight-forward - just cut a piece of wood for each flat colour zone ... blue, red, etc. etc. ... but real prints like this are done with multiple overlays everywhere. In most of the prints in this series (with the notable exception of the I Choose You design we just finished) nearly every 'colour' appearing in the finished print is actually made up of other tones overlaid on each other. This gives a much richer tone to the entire thing, and also goes a long way to making it all 'blend' properly.

Jed's image has a lot of greens. How many of them, and in what order, will be made up of such overlays?

Well, I've had a stab at it, and think that I'll need six pieces of wood for the colour blocks, using both sides. Perhaps something like this:

I'm going to study this for a while tonight and tomorrow, and if I can't find any problems with it - trying to imagine the printing in my head - I'll get started with the transfers and carving.