Boardwalk Bar part 15

 Last night I went through my storage box, and found I had the equivalent of 16 more albums of material that hadn't been listened to yet in the Studio.  All seemed to be things from my college friend Doug (not to be confused with Chicago printmaker Doug, mentioned in the last post) all on CD.  That stuff should take me through the end of the month.  I set them aside.

In the morning I decided to make a couple of stops on the way to the Studio, things I had to deal with sooner or later.  As a result, I didn't get there until almost 11:00.  Not that it makes any difference.  A few more artworks were up on the walls. and if I read it correctly, art from some the current instructors there.  Perhaps I should look into doing another woodcut class there.  A few people asked me about it at the Open Studio.  

Today's work was to move over again to the right panel, and take on some of the figures around the bar.  I started with the three in the lower left corner of the panel, then moved over and dealt with some of the figures on the far right.  I did part of the bar top- around the first three figures and the far corner.  I left the middle front alone, as I currently have a glass and ashtray there, and I may want to redraw those before I cut them.  The rest of the figures and the area within the bar I also left alone for now, but I may take them on next week.   There just isn't that much more to cut.  All my work today was on the right side panel (left side of the eventual print) so that is all I photographed today:

For music I selected two discs that seemed to go well together- a couple of pieces of Americana.  I started with Just Add Ice from the V-Roys.  Once upon a time, the band was known as the Viceroys, but for legal reasons had to change it, so the album name is an inside joke- adding the letters "ICE" would change the band's name back to the original.  The band was out of Knoxville, and led by fellow William and Mary grad Scott Miller.  (I don't remember if Doug knew him or just knew of him, but his time at the school overlapped with ours) Mostly acoustic, leaning more toward traditional country.  Not bad at all, but not particularly exciting either.  I have read online that the live shows moved more toward punk, but this album is not that.  When that ended I put on Satellite Rides by Dallas band Old 97's.  A bit more electric and I actually knew two of the songs, probably from local radio.  Despite the college connection, I think I liked the latter album better, which is good, as I have another Old 97's album in my pile of discs.  I am now looking forward to it a bit more now.