Third bee woodblock print done
I don't like it.
Seriously, I've been looking at this thing in various stages for over a week (almost 2 weeks) and I'm sick of it. Is that normal? I feel like I gave birth to a deformed baby. A lot of work and I don't even like to be in the same room with it.
It was a strange, tiring week, ending in a pretty intense three-day work retreat, which I enjoyed despite the fact that it exhausted me...I went to bed at 9:30 on Friday night. Then, the rest of the weekend was spent on this thing, and I still have work to do in that class to make up for the time I was at Work Camp! And to top it off, I missed two assignments in my other class.
This week will be better, I think; Halloween on Wednesday is something pleasant to look forward to, even though we get only a few kids most years. And the coming weekend is daylight savings time: fall back, hoorah!
And I can start the next woodcut. I do feel like I'm learning something each time, with these. The best part of doing this one was figuring out the sequence: it's six colors, two separate woodblocks, reduction cut on both. One for the yellow, pink, and dark red, and one for the blue, green and black. Having a printing background must have helped; I do know something about color separations!
Anyway, the weather's been nice, and things outside smell wonderfully like Fall...ok, I can't complain too much. Life's good.
Seriously, I've been looking at this thing in various stages for over a week (almost 2 weeks) and I'm sick of it. Is that normal? I feel like I gave birth to a deformed baby. A lot of work and I don't even like to be in the same room with it.
It was a strange, tiring week, ending in a pretty intense three-day work retreat, which I enjoyed despite the fact that it exhausted me...I went to bed at 9:30 on Friday night. Then, the rest of the weekend was spent on this thing, and I still have work to do in that class to make up for the time I was at Work Camp! And to top it off, I missed two assignments in my other class.
This week will be better, I think; Halloween on Wednesday is something pleasant to look forward to, even though we get only a few kids most years. And the coming weekend is daylight savings time: fall back, hoorah!
And I can start the next woodcut. I do feel like I'm learning something each time, with these. The best part of doing this one was figuring out the sequence: it's six colors, two separate woodblocks, reduction cut on both. One for the yellow, pink, and dark red, and one for the blue, green and black. Having a printing background must have helped; I do know something about color separations!
Anyway, the weather's been nice, and things outside smell wonderfully like Fall...ok, I can't complain too much. Life's good.
