Back from Break

My woodcut workshop took a mid semester break last week, so as to avoid potential conflicts with the holiday week.  All four of my students returned tonight to continue learning about woodcut.  Everyone took advantage of the two weeks off to get a lot of work done, some even finding wood on their own to complete a second block.  As a result, the focus tonight was on printing.  Above, Jill inks her second block.  Below, Kate lifts the paper to check the progress of her printing.

Stan had carved a second copy of his image and pulled a rough proof with some black ink, but tonight he wanted to try working with color, so we used a registration system and his original block to print the first two colors of what will be a three color print.

Below are the first proofs from tonight's printing.

Next week is the final session.  Everyone took home a new piece of wood tonight, so we may see some new prints next week, as well as updated versions of these.