Woodblock Wednesday - last class this term

At home I reviewed my circle work and thought ahead to what to do next, then enlarged the "penumbra" of one of the fuzzy circles cut earlier.

In class - printing -

messy edges

Using a mask around the edge, and inking up in two colours

I also used the mask to print the lines in the centre and the fuzzy edges around them, but the registration was ad hoc and very sloppy. The mask should be the exact size of the paper! -

 End of term means we lay out our work and have a look -

 Some close-ups -

 At the start of the class, while we were waiting for blocks and papers to reach the required degree of dampness, we learned a little about bonsai - what a huge topic that is! Also on the table, natural pigments for printing experiments - some are said to need no nori...

I dug out the remaining "binders keepers" - what was intended as a way of carrying around the essential bookbinding tools turns out to be just the right size for woodblock cutting tools -

When I make more, there will be wider slots to accomodate tools with bigger handles.