Mt. Fuji Print: Hokusai's print, Part 1

In this demonstration, we will talk about sketches (or in English class we can refer to them as 'rough drafts). These sketches are the blueprint or layout if you will in how we will figure out what will be black and what will be white. Remember that you only have one color in your Speedball ink kit, and that is black. And you have the white of your paper. So we have to be aware that even though Hokusai's print has red, blue, white, black and a little green, we only have two colors: black (ink) and white (paper).

So I have mapped it out for you by drawing a few sketches in order to figure out what is black and what is white for this print we are doing.

Also, if you ever want to do printmaking like this, consider that you can only work with the colors you have and also think about that the image that you create (sketch) will turn out to be a mirror image as the final print.

Keep this in mind as we go forward. Thank you!