Zhu Jianhui sketches a rough image for the colored wood-block painting In Winter. [Photo/WeChat account: lyqdtour]

Is it easy to make a colored wood-block painting? Here, painter Zhu Jianhui, head of the Qidong Woodblock Painting Academy in Nantong, details the creation process of the colored wood block painting In Winter.

First, Zhu sketched a rough image for the work, then prepared printing plates and polished their surfaces. With a variety of different tools, Zhu carved the sketched image into the surface printing plates.

Zhu made four plates for the image with different colors – red, blue, black, and yellow. He then printed the image in different colors over a piece of paper, and the printed paper is the finished colored wood-block painting work.

Zhu prepares printing plates. [Photo/WeChat account: lyqdtour]

Zhu polishes the surface of a printing plate. [Photo/WeChat account: lyqdtour]

Zhu carves the sketched image into a surface printing plate. [Photo/WeChat account: lyqdtour]

Tools used by Zhu in creating a wood-block painting. [Photo/WeChat account: lyqdtour]

The red version of the colored wood-block painting In Winter. [Photo/WeChat account: lyqdtour]

The red version of the colored wood-block painting In Winter. [Photo/WeChat account: lyqdtour]

The red version of the colored wood-block painting In Winter. [Photo/WeChat account: lyqdtour]

The blue version of the colored wood-block painting In Winter. [Photo/WeChat account: lyqdtour]

Zhu prints the image in different colors over papers. [Photo/WeChat account: lyqdtour]

The finished work of the colored wood-block painting In Winter by Zhu Jianhui. [Photo/WeChat account: lyqdtour]