An unofficial guide to block printing via Austin Kleon
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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