Summer is Ending

An unusual day today.  Beautiful and sunny, yet the parking areas around the Boatworks were deserted, instead of the typical crowds parking for the marina, etc.  We were down to four for our last meeting of this session, and this summer, but everyone came in with work to do and it got done.

Sue had missed last week, but was busy cutting and reworking older blocks.  She decided to concentrate on printing tonight.  On her own she had tried printing with water based ink and water soluble oil ink, and now wanted to try oil based ink, pulling and hand printing three proofs of this cat block from earlier in the semester.  The verdict- oil ink is the best, which is what everyone decides.

Meanwhile, Stan and Marie concentrated on cutting two newer blocks, hoping to get done as much as possible in our last meeting.  Marie did pretty much all the cutting in the above piece tonight.  We discussed other places to go from here on this piece, but she was pleased with what was done so far.  Stan has been working on this duck piece off and on over the past few weeks, but wanted to get a state proof tonight.  So far so good.  He plans some minor changes to the water's surface, but not much more than that.

So woodcut is now off for a little while.  I'm hoping to get many of the students to participate in the upcoming show of art by Belmar students, and hoping that leads to recruiting new students for an eventual fall session.