Step Seven ...

Green under-kimono ... This was an 'unplanned' impression. When I was analyzing the design before carving, I noticed an area of green under-kimono that I thought I would be able to print without cutting a block specifically for it. I thought that if I overlapped the yellow and the bluish wave pattern, they would combine to create the green I wanted. I cut the blocks that way, but once I did the proof printing, I realized that it just wasn't the correct green.

If it had been wildly different, it would have been necessary to go back to those two blocks, trim this area off them, then cut an entirely new block for it.

But the 'wrong' green wasn't so different as to require that. I simply cut a new block that included the area I wanted to change, and overprinted it to produce the desired deep green.

So this area of the paper has now been overprinted five times already. It doesn't show in these computer images, but when you look at the real thing, it really does give a wonderful depth and tone to the colour ...