Woodblock Wednesday - finally, a consortium of octopuses

Second layer on these -

 ... for a grand total of nine -

 ... and these, either finished or just the one layer printed, belatedly -

Deciding what colour to use for each took quite a while. I wrote the colour on the back of the print and put them in the damp pack.

The block had been cut back to make little holes in the suckers. Printing went smoothly. These are on paper from a hosho pad -

 and these are on other papers, which take the "ink" much better -

 The eyes were carefully tipped in as a separate layer -

I hope you can see the effect for the little holes in the suckers.

Done and dusted? Maybe. So, on to the next....

During the week I remembered seeing a print ... somewhere ... with narrow areas of colours around the edge of a circle, white (unprinted) interior and black (ink?) background, or perhaps foreground. I wondered if the layers of colour (from overprinting the colour blocks) would make a dark enough background, or if a layer of black would be needed.

 Experiments -

 Overlap (a slightly Turneresque quality?) -

To be continued...