All the component parts are finally in place, and the initial group of Share Certificates are leaving the building today ... heading out to countries all over the world.
Regular watchers of our...
2018-06-14 05:41:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of you have perhaps been thinking I would never get to this ... but I have actually been making progress on these rewards. For those of you who don't remember what I'm talking about - th...
2018-05-27 08:07:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This one has been way too long in the making ... I think perhaps many of the Patreons are giving up on me recently! We're hugely busy with a combination of a hugely busy Sakura Season and our...
2018-05-10 05:20:53 +0000 UTC View PostWith the upcoming 1st anniversary of our Patreon community now rapidly approaching, I have got to get busy with the next pair of Patreon Chibies!
Watchers of 2018-04-08 10:30:36 +0000 UTC View Post
This is certainly later that it should have been ... but it's ready just in time for the shipping of the actual prints ... the third new design in the series to come to life in the past few months.
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2018-03-24 22:03:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the second of the two videos showing how I have been making the Ukiyo-e Heroes books that were promised as part of last year's Kickstarter campaign.
Each of the books contains ten prints - t...
2018-02-12 13:50:29 +0000 UTC View Post
This was a project that grew out of the feedback from viewers of our Twitch stream. Quite a few of those viewers have caught the woodblock printmaking bug, and have been making their own experiments. ...
2018-01-13 19:12:50 +0000 UTC View Post
What's this? Didn't our video series about the production of Hokusai's Great Wave print wrap up around two years ago? Well ... no!
We are frequently asked about pr...
2017-12-05 12:47:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Patreon supporters ... thank you very much for your patience! I've just uploaded another in our series of videos where I introduce some prints I find particularly interesting: David's Choice - Episode...
2017-10-23 07:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Now that I am spending so much time back at the carving bench, it has become practical to set up a Twitch account for streaming. I've streamed more than 80 hours of printmaking over the past month!
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2017-09-30 07:38:32 +0000 UTC View Post
We completed a new video last night, and it shows (in more than one way) the progressions of the colours building up on a pair of our subscription prints (from the Yokai Faceoff series).
It also int...
2017-08-29 02:39:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe Patreon Chibies are ready! - at least the initial printing batch is … We've started off with a run of 200 sheets, and they came to my desk for checking yesterday afternoon. They are very nicely ...
2017-08-24 05:16:37 +0000 UTC View PostThis is all working out so well, I can't believe it! Over the past couple of weeks, we've been training the new staff in the shop, and as I sit here in my 'office/carving area' preparing this po...
2017-08-23 02:33:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the third episode in the series showing the production of the prints we will shortly begin sending out to Patreon backers. This one show Dave doing the initial test proofing of the blocks. &nb...
2017-08-18 11:36:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the second part of the series showing the process of making the Chibi prints that will be sent out to Patreon supporters later this summer. Thanks again everybody!
2017-08-10 13:33:14 +0000 UTC View Post
It's (past) time to get busy with making the woodblock prints that we will be sending to Patreon backers this summer. Here is the first in what is planned to be a three-part series showing how they ar...
2017-07-18 14:09:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Another in our series of ‘process videos’ has just been uploaded. This one shows young Ayumi-san stepping through the colours on a classic Hiroshige reproduction. Watch the print come to life colo...
2017-06-18 15:12:10 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is a supplement to the one posted yesterday about the "Favourite Flowers of Japan" woodblock book. It shows video and stills of many of the pages of the book. I hope you enjoy it, and thank...
2017-05-20 15:04:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the next video in the David's Choice series. This episode takes a look at a very interesting woodblock printed book published back in the early 1900s in Japan ... in 'multi-media' technology .....
2017-05-19 13:42:48 +0000 UTC View Post
As a 'celebration' of the wonderful launch of our Patreon page just a week ago, here we are with the next video in the David's Choice series. It features just a single woodblock print ... but what a p...
2017-04-27 15:52:43 +0000 UTC View PostWhat are the Patreon funds going to be used for?
This is going to morph as time goes by. Here’s our plan as things stand right now:
As outlined in 2017-04-21 12:49:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a short video of Dave doing a recap of our patron levels and the rewards that Patreons will receive.
2017-04-21 11:58:28 +0000 UTC View PostBackers of our work here on Patreon are of course free to end their support at any time, and over time there is a steady stream of people 'coming and going', or changing their reward levels. But some ...
2017-04-19 00:14:29 +0000 UTC View Post