Boardwalk Days part 37

 Only planned to be at the Studio today for a short time before the opening reception tonight, but that would be enough to complete the last piece of this old woodcut.  So I brought the good tools, but left the music at home.  And as it turned out, the last part to be done only took about 20 minutes.

It was mostly a little bit seen between the rails on the edge of the block, and a little bit around it.  But with that, this block seems to be done.  The next test will be inking it up and seeing what I got.  If it looks reasonably done, I'll go ahead and pull a proof of it, probably on a heavier paper than I used for the edition, as I may experiment with colors before I settle on them.  I base this on my experience making the boardwalk prints (more than a decade ago now) and in some of the older ones my first ideas for color did not end up as the final version.  The color experiments on that first proof will help me decide how to proceed.  If I like what I have carved, just pull a better proof on the good paper.  If not, make some changes, and if I like how that looks, print the updated block on the good paper, and hope the color works out on that one.  Meanwhile, here's what the whole block looks like now:

As I wrote, next is the experiments to see what I can do with this.  Once this piece is done, I can move on to the next thing, whatever that will be.