I've been waiting to at least have one piece of art work before posting here. It finally happened last week.... I finished the woodblock I started over a month ago.
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The paper is 10 x 15 inches. Its a reduction print with 6 states printed one on top of the other, using Japanese technique...... I gotta take a better photo and will tomorrow when the light is better.....
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this is better, a scan with some of the border cropped.
I used Lenox paper from Daniel Smith, an inexpensive alternative for Japanese paper. The paper is kept damp throughout the printing process and I put it in the freezer for 3 weeks to keep it from molding while my grand daughter visited. I once had a stack of about 50 prints develope mold half through a reduction print..... I gave up printing for a few years after that.
44 of the prints were keepers and 31 will go to a
Baren exchange. The theme of the exchange is "My Window" and my print is "Window View."
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I had a wonderful visit from my grand daughter, Alyssa, for 3 weeks. I had a miserable cold, but we managed to have lots of fun. I took oodles of pictures of her, but this one my friend JoAnn took and I love it.
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Fun with her new friend, Desire, on the 4th of July,
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More fun on the 4th... the all girl Hootchy-Cootchy band... Ellie, Jessie, Susan and Kate.
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Yet more fun on the 4th....
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Until a few days ago, we've hardly had any rain this summer.... It most surely has broken records for lack of rain and high temperature. We spent a few afternoons at the beach and the gravel pits.
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We took an evening walk along the Goode River where elves and fairies have been seen. We didn't see any but we did see a fairy village and a porcipine.
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Here's Alyssa with her Grandpa rowing out to the Apex (our fishing boat on the far right).... Van was home for a few days and we went out and caught a few humpies one morning.
So that's it for now. I'm hoping a surge of inspiration is on its way and I will be getting lots of work to show here soon.