Spring Woodcuts Continued

Two meetings of the spring woodcut session in Belmar down, with two to go.  Since the second meeting my two students had been busy.  One had gone ahead and ordered a bunch of woodcut tools, received them by the end of last week, and was making progress on her first block.  The other one opted not to order new tools, but was using some old linocut tools she found at home.  Linoleum tools don't give the level of control of sharp woodcut tools (and these arrive from the factory pretty sharp), but her image was a rough design and she figured they would do fine.  And they did.  Upon arriving  she borrowed some of the class tools to fix a few detail areas, and about halfway through class she was ready to try a first proof.  Above is the proof and block, pulled with water soluble black and Rives Lightweight paper.  Her plan is to cut back some of the dark areas a little, make the whole thing more readable.  Meanwhile my other student should be ready to proof hers by next week, so I expect we'll have some nice prints to show in week four.