Woodblock Wednesday, first independent week

The course has finished so I'm keeping up the momentum by reserving Wednesday mornings for woodblock printing. It took a while to get organised this week, but now all the equipment is gathered in one place, ready for next time.

The current project is to develop a book on the theme "offset". 

"Start where you are, with what you have" - which is the blocks containing segments of circles. 

While messing about with adding smaller circles to the sequence, I wondered about overlapping the same image by turning the block upside down...

 The red and the blue were to hand as well - dried up tubes that have now been diluted and stored in little jars.

I tried to make subtle variations in the red, but the contrast between red and blue just swallows them up -

 Carry on nonetheless, just to see what happens -

 Here are two arrangements of the prints, two possible sequences -

I prefer the "let's see what happens" approach to deciding beforehand what should be happening. I prefer surprises, and even accidents, to total control and then not being happy with the results.