YouTube video series
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Hokusai's 'Great Wave' : the production process
In early 2015, woodblock printmaking Dave Bull undertook to make a new reproduction of the iconic 'Great Wave' design by Katsushika Hokusai.
He documented the process in a series of videos - collected here - and this page contains some supplementary images to accompany one of those videos (The Great Wave - Part 10).
The images presented in the video ...
Metropolitan copy, showing strange shape in straw cover of boat:
The same area on the British Museum print:
The two copies compared:
Two British Museum versions:
Different area of the same two prints:
Three British Museum versions:
Boxwood inlaying: the routed hole ...
Boxwood inlaying: shaping the boxwood insert ...
Boxwood inlaying: applying glue ...
Boxwood inlaying: inserting the piece ...
Boxwood inlaying: clamping ...
Boxwood inlaying: finishing with a cabinet scraper ...
Boxwood inlaying: the insert ready for use ...
Boxwood inlaying: positioning the tracing ...
Boxwood inlaying: glued down ...
Boxwood inlaying: ready to carve ...
