New drawers for the workshop
Registration set up for printing an edge to edge stone run on a hand press.
Rapidly becoming my favorite technique now that I’m solid in handling my stops on the leading and trailing edges, you get that awesome tension of setting it half off - half on the stone edge, lowering the scraper bar slowly while beginning to move the bed forward, then releasing right at the exact moment.
This is one of 46 blocks used to create Helen Frankenthaler’s mokuhanga print Madame Butterfly. It looks like all 46 blocks can be found at the National Gallery of Australia.
I wish that my woodblocks looked like Helen Frankenthaler’s.
(block from Frankenthaler’s Madame Butterfly)
Litho Press moved into it’s new home! A Few more parts to repair and then we’re off.
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Ta da…now just a clean and ready to go…
And all back together again.
Press being dismantled for moving Today. The guys called this model the Ferrari. Trying to decide if the name should stick.
In pieces
Moving my new press…Weighed a tonne… Literally
New workshop slowly coming together. my chunky marble graining sink.
