Detail, they were hard to photograph under glass!
Another detail. The carved lines are incredible.
Then I went in to the demo to see more of his work
Placing paper over the inked block into the wooden registration guide. Dan simply hand printed with a bamboo rice spoon from Chinatown, a few blocks away.
A woodblock is in the foreground, and the registration guide is in the middle of the table.
His tools
The first color printed
Woodblock for the second color
The finished print
Detail of woodblock- I like to write the titles on the side of my blocks too so I can find what I need amongst the stacks of blocks on the shelf
Woodblock
The print
Seeing these large prints that were printed by hand was very inspiring. Dan said he likes to print by hand to get subtle nuances that you don't get with the press. I was going to print my big piece on a press, but will now spoon it by hand.