Supermarket Battle part 14

Just had a fairly busy week for school stuff, but some more cutting got done. Last Wednesday I brought the block and my tools with me to school.  Partly because I was going early and knew I'd have some time to kill, and partly because that class had been shrinking and I knew I might not have much to do.  Both situations turned out to be correct, and with just one student showing up I had both time and space to get some cutting done during the four hour class.

A few days later I was teaching woodcut at my other school.  A new class for me, an independent study thing with a student working toward his BFA show.  He wants that show to include woodcuts, and when you want to learn woodcut in New Jersey, I'm the guy.  This was set in motion last semester and will be a part of my schedule this semester.  My one day per week at that school, teaching two other classes, I'll also meet with this student and guide him through the world of woodcut.  That show will not be this academic year, which is good because there's a lot of work to be done before then.  My part of that work includes creating a syllabus for the class, which I want to get done before our next meeting.  Meanwhile a lot of e-mails between me and my Intro students.  There's always a lot of chaos near the beginning of a semester, but we should get it all straightened out.

Today back to work on the block, this time at the Studio.  Among the things done since I last wrote about this, I cut out the four figures, my "English flag" (the classic red on white St George's cross flag that is the traditional symbol of England was still two centuries away, so I went with the Flag of Essex, suitably ancient with three Saxon seaxes, a kind of sword that looks a lot like the large butcher knives I've seen used by supermarket meat cutters), boxes and a lot of Latin words, and a lot of the optical grays, which I was thinking about anyway as my woodcut student had a lot of questions about how to handle that kind of stuff in his work.

In the evening, online research into materials for the woodcut class, and for a possible upcoming woodcut class in Belmar.  My ink and paper supplier the last time I taught in Belmar took itself out of the business a few years ago, and my supply stock is starting to run low.