Woodblock Wednesday - carving water

With the first panel cut (it's to be printed pale), work starts and finishes on the  areas that are to be printed dark -

The middle panel was the problem - which areas to print and hence which to cut away -

 Pretty much done -

Coincidentally, the dress I've been wearing lately

 The first prints -

Just the first panel
First and second panels
All three

The other panels printed separately...

 Layered up, closer up -

The colour change confuses the print, and the imperfect printing doesn't help! But these are early stages, I need to sort out what's going on ... and what I actually want it to be like. The starting point was quite different, quite colourful, but the idea is to either carve another panel of "colourful glints" or add tiny areas of colour from the back.

A different kind of water - rain on a window - against the light, and close up -

The houses across the street are captured at various angles in each drop of water

Different again...