Boardwalk Bar part 24

 With my practice color now done, I want to deal with the block itself.  One thing I noticed in the coloring was that some of the faces in particular needed more cutting.  Features were too big and blocky.  Also there was a little curvature in the block, which resulted in a lot of extra ink ending up in places that weren't supposed to get any.  Short term solution on the day of proofing was pieces of blue tape, but today I pulled all those off, and cut the areas of black underneath them.  I don't know that this will permanently solve the problem (these areas may end up taking ink again) but it can't hurt.  The photo below shows the current state of the block, along with some of the wood removed today:

The next step is to take another proof of this block, a little more carefully this time, and try to get the right colors this time.  Some I already know will change, and others I may decide over the next week or so of looking at the one that is done.  Once that proof is dry, color it to make what I expect to be the final version.

For today's music I went with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.  For reasons I am not sure of, my original copy of 2008's Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! was in the storage box.  It wouldn't make sense with the alphabetical discs, and it was stuffed in with the home burned discs.  I did make a home burned copy of the album to keep in the Studio, and I have listened to it in recent years, but today I brought with me that official label produced copy.  When that ended, I went with a home burned disc of the same artists and their 1992 album Henry's Dream.  Coming after a label produced disc, it played with no problem.  By the way, you can read about these albums and how I became a fan on August of 2019 on this blog.