Kind Hearted Woman Blues part 5

 I had postponed this one to get the coloring on another print done first, but now it was time to proof this block and see where I am at.  Having torn an appropriate size piece of paper earlier, all that was left was to prepare some ink, which I did.  After putting down an extra thick layer of ink (this is a first proof and they always take more ink). I started hand rubbing my proof.  

The upper part looked good.  The lower part, which includes the text, was a bit tougher, though both areas required some re-inking.  Meanwhile, I had music on.  I had brought the smaller blues/jazz book of discs with me, and started with a home burned copy of the soundtrack from Naked Lunch, featuring Ornette Coleman soloing over the London Philharmonic, which I wrote about back in June of 2019.  When that ended it seemed like time for John Coltrane, but I just listened to that a few weeks ago, so I went with another classic from a horn player, 'Round About Midnight by Miles Davis, written about in August of 2019.  

But in the end it was done.  Because of a little smear along the top I wouldn't use this one for exhibition, but then again I was just doing this one as first proof and assumed some cutting would happen before I do the final version anyway.

In general I think it turned out fine.  My standing male figure doesn't particularly look like Humphrey Bogart, but then again, he doesn't have to.  For my purposes he will do as a dejected male figure, which is all I wanted in the first place.  My female figure looks like the original charcoal drawing, which is fine because that is what I expected there.  Those are unlikely to change in later proofs.  What I may look at is the background tones on the wall, and the sheet on the bed, but that can wait until the print is dried. Meanwhile, I put today's proof in the rack to dry, cleaned up, and eventually got on my way.