Woodblock Wednesday - first proofs of keyblock

Last Wednesday evening I was this far with cutting the block -

... and as the week went by it gradually got done ...

 The stripes appeared during the clearing of the shapes on the left, and spread to the shapes on the right. Sometimes the work tells you what to do!

 A rubbing -

 Hmm, these colours that were flung together on my dish drainer might be nice to use....

 At last, printing! I was thinking of doing the hanshita method of transferring, hoping that it would make registration more accurate, so I printed several sheets of medium-weight (tosa washi) and of light-weight paper that came to hand (unknown origin).

The thicker paper

The thinner paper

Today in class I used a tosa washi print as the basis for the second block -

Trying a corner to see if the paper is dry enough to lift properly,
i.e. leaving a thin layer with the print on the block

Most of the extra paper pulled off cleanly - using a rubber helped

But what will the second block consist of? Even after some "colouring in" to sort out the stripes and solids and colours of necks for the jugs, I'm not sure how to proceed, and as for what colours to use for printing - that's a ways down the road...