An unofficial guide to block printing via Austin Kleon [Shared]

An unofficial guide to block printing via Austin Kleon

The image shows a still life of block printing materials on a green cutting mat with a grid pattern. A carved rectangular block of wood with a blue spiral-like design is positioned near a printed version of the same design on a rectangular piece of tan paper. To the left of the block is a red rubber brayer and to the right is another red brayer. Scattered around the mat are small white and tan spheres, and a small rectangular piece of white paper. The printed image on the tan paper features the same blue spiral-like design as the block, with the text "SPIRAL QUEST" faintly visible in the upper right corner.</p></p>

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As I said in Friday’s newsletter, pretty much all I did over spring break was make block prints and listen to dub reggae.

Several folks asked how I do it, so I made a batch of videos to share. I learned a few of these tips in the workshop I took with Dana Tanamachi that I mentioned in my “Living Seasonally” newsletter.

 

I want to emphasize that I am a total amateur at this stuff, and I will miss a bunch that you can learn elsewhere in tutorials by more qualified people.

That said, I wrote a whole section in Show Your Work! about how there’s a lot of value in learning from beginners. Because beginners have only recently figured stuff out, they know what a beginner needs to know better than an expert does…

 

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