Excuse me, what is the overall process of woodblock watermarking?

Using woodblock watermarks to reproduce traditional Chinese paintings mainly includes the following four processes: 1. Outlining and dividing the plates. First, the original manuscript needs to be analyzed. Size, etc., determine the number of printing plates and sub-plates. If the original has several colors, it will be divided into several sets of color plates. Simple tones generally require several to dozens of sets of color separation plates. Complex originals may even require hundreds of sets of color separation plates. In order to protect the original work, before dividing it, a transparent plastic film was first used to cover the original work, and the divided plate was traced with a brush; then translucent goose skin paper was used to cover the plastic film, and the division was traced again. How many blocks are divided into, how many pieces of wild goose paper should be traced. 2. Engraving: On the surface of a planed hard wood board such as pear wood or jujube wood, stick the traced goose skin paper on the back, and carve after it dries. Engraving is to use a special knife to carve a block according to the lines of the original. It is necessary to pay attention to the starting and finishing of the original, and understand its characteristics and style, so that the techniques and brushstrokes of the original work can be vividly reproduced under the knife. 3. The printing is overprinted in sequence according to the plate division. When printing, the same rice paper or silk as the original work must be used as the printing material. The printing material is not the ink used in general printing, but the water-based pigment used in Chinese painting, which is used for coating pigments. The tool is a brush and the pressure tool is a brown brush. When printing, compare the originals and use a brush to add color to the corresponding color plate again and again, gradually overprinting into a complete print. Some still need to perform partial rendering and smoothing processing. 4. Mounting: The printed finished product is set off and pasted using traditional Chinese painting mounting methods, and then framed into scrolls or albums for hanging or preservation. The process of art creation using woodblock watermarking techniques is basically the same as the copying process. The difference is that when dividing the prints, you do not copy the original work, but your own conception and creation.