Kind Hearted Woman Blues- Finished

 It's been almost two weeks since I pulled the initial proof of this block, but a car issue kept me from getting up to the Studio late last week.  That problem is resolved, so today I wanted to finish this thing.  I had my cutting tools in my bag already, and my book of jazz/blues discs, so there wasn't much to get ready.  Paper and ink were already there. 

My first task, while hands were still clean, was to tear a sheet of Rives Lightweight into two appropriate size pieces for today's printing. These were set aside.  Molly wasn't there, so I started with a disc, in this case one burned from a two disc set of the Essential Duke Ellington, in my case my favorites condensed down to a single disc (written about back in November of 2022), but that would get me through my first task.  I got out the block of the most recent in my Robert Johnson series, and started pulling off pieces of blue tape.  First I cut away some stray marks from the first proofing, things I didn't want to to print.  My figuring is that if these parts of the block took ink the first time, they might again.  Then I used my same tools to make some modifications to the image, all those lines on the back wall and the bed.  I did this by looking at both the block itself and that first proof from May 1st.  After making those changes, I decided to go ahead and print it.

Having been inked before, I figured this would go a little faster, and I guess it did.  Still, I had to re-ink some of it to get the solid black that I wanted in the places I wanted it.  Results can be seen below:

While this proof is not perfect, I'm going to declare this print done, and that includes the block.  I can leave the cutting tools at home next time.  I chose not to print the text this time, as I may not need it the next time I show it, and those lyrics were fine last time, and so no changes need to be made there today. Eventually I'll pull a full size proof with the lyrics, but that can wait for another time. 

While I had ink out on my palette table, I pulled another proof of my St Dwynwen print, to make up for the one that had colors smear last time.  Unlike my last attempt, I was more careful this time while printing it, and there was no shifting of the print on the block.  I still have to be careful coloring it, but I feel confident now in letting my collector know it is available for pick up.  Then with ink still out, I made a few needed repairs to my newest boardwalk print, things I noticed while coloring it last time.  Only then I could put away all the ink and clean up.  I put on a second disc from that book, a home burned best of Ella Fitzgerald, again my condensing of a two disc set of Gershwin songs (or at least I think it was- the originals are all in storage), written about back in August of 2021 if you want to know more.  It seemed to go along well with the first one.  The sprinkling rain I drove through on the way up was now a more steady light rain, but nothing I couldn't drive through.  So I went home.