Woodblock Wednesday - another block cut, another bit of confusion

(Some of this is repetition from last week - I haven't quite "processed" it yet!)

This time I'm using the hanshita method, in hopes of better alignment. Usually the hanshita is the ink drawing that is pasted down and used for the key block, and once that is cut, the prints are used for subsequent blocks.  I made several prints from my block and used one, gluing it on with nori, letting it almost dry, then rubbing off the paper but leaving a thin layer with the ink lines -

Before I could cut, I needed to decide which jugs would go on which block, and spent the week thinking about colour and using my yummy new tubes of watercolour to get a feel for what might work in the print -

Cleaning up the key block -

Working on the light box (rather than on a rubbing) and trying to get the colours of the jugs separated -

Adding handles makes a difference -

 The key block has two striped pots - I feel the need for more stripes -

Added outlines - are they necessary? -

This colourway is based on a couple seen on the street, he in three shades of grey with a bit or orange (labels), and she in two shades of aqua with a pink hat -

That gets the jugs onto three blocks, and the "mouths" onto two other blocks. Is there an easier way?

After cutting some of the mouths, and leaving the background....

... I took the quandry to class and made a little progress. It helps to see things in a different environment.

 The mouths were printed (oops that's upside down) -

 ...to look like this -

Another hanshita is glued down on the other side of the plate, but I'm not quite sure what's to be cut away -

Carol showed some work by students (she teaches at Morley, Art Academy, and City Lit) -

 ... and during an idle moment an accidental collage revealed itself in a magazine that way lying around -

 After class I needed a walk to clear the cobwebs and found myself in Intaglio, buying another "thick" sheet of shina ply -

"Just in case"...