Boardwalk Days part 45

 

Now that I am done with all the proofing I need for the Brooklyn show, time to get back to my current piece, the latest boardwalk print.  When I last left off (the end of January) I had one decent proof on Japanese paper, and my color test using a rough proof on a heavy western paper.  I still need to order some more colors of watercolor to do what I want, but I do know I have a few sheets of that okawara in my Studio, so I can at least pull an improved proof on the right paper.  Started that process today.

Part of why I did that color test was to determine what colors I would use, and what some of these shapes I had drawn and cut were supposed to be.  Some go back over a decade, and coloring them meant some kind of commitment and decision making.  I looked at my block, the good black and white proof I had of it on the Japanese paper, and my color test to see what I had decided.  In the end, I made a few changes, mostly on and around the two seated figures I had drawn from a model recently.  But as long as I had some cutting tools with me, I removed all the bits of tape I had down from the last printing, and cleaned up those areas as well, taking out all the unintended bits of black ink, now dry.  I didn't need them then, so I certainly don't need them now, and the best way to make sure they don't pick up ink next time is to get rid of them  This is not to say that I won't get accidental bits of ink on the new and improved block, but that's a problem for next week.

While all this went on, I was listening to music, in this case a home burned disc of the two record vinyl version of the debut album from the Manic Street Preachers, Generation Terrorists.  This appears to be the one I burned from a cassette I taped at my friend Doug's place in Kentucky back in the early 90's.  My records show that I last had this in the Studio about a year ago, but the best write-up is probably one from June of 2022.  This version has a few songs and sound bits that didn't appear on the cd version that eventually came out in this country several months later.