Studio Business

One thing I knew I had to do was print the two sets of lyrics that had never been printed yet, or two Robert Johnson prints from the first set I did.  I had printed the images years ago, and exhibited those images, but not the lyrics, which I expected would be done by the letterpress shop that was expected to be a part of the Nashville exhibition.  But since that is now off, I feel it's best to print all of these with the lyrics in case they are needed.  I checked previously and found that two had never been printed.  I do this because parts of a block that have been printed at least once before print better than wood that has never been printed, so I may as well bring these last two to the same level as all the others.

The two blocks in question were on the shelf of the unit I built under my tack wall, and by now completely dry.  I found two small pieces of print paper, folded and too small to ever use for a print, but big enough to hold these lyric sections.  I prepared some ink, and one by one I rolled up the lettering, taped off sections I didn't want to print, and pulled proofs by hand rubbing of the two sections.  Results are shown below:

By the way, these lyrics (the one part of these prints that is definitely created by Johnson) come from the 32-20 Blues and Walkin' Blues if you find yourself wanting to see the image that I came up with to go with these words.

While this went on, I had brought my rock/pop disc book with me today and opened it to a random page, from which I selected my home burned Flat Duo Jets cd, songs from some early full length albums that I had, written about back in January of 2020 if you want to know more.  No other reason I picked this disc, but then I don't think anyone needs and excuse to listen to the Flat Duo Jets.   By the time that disc ended I had printed my two sets of lyrics and cleaned up all my ink.  Next phase will be cutting, but I plan to do that another day.  I put the newly inked blocks in my drying rack, and two of my former student's blocks that I had printed over the summer (and now completely dry) on the shelf today's had come from.