The Path of Knowledge

CCS resumed today with an introductory lecture in the old building across the river beside Barringtons Hospital. More modern, less gravitas, smaller screen than the church  - in all other ways,vastly better: more contact between audience and speaker, much better accoustics, brightter, better chairs.... and some fresh air on the way to and from.

At 1.30 we had an introductiory seminar on print from Kieran Cashell which was great: the content was great, the pictures were great and most of all the passion was great - hope to hear more like that.

Tidied up the sketchbook somewhat and updated contextual some more; there is so much more I could put up here or/and in the notebook but it would tend to become rather too all-encompassing and I must try to be more selective and to cut the verbosity somewhat (that will be difficult!)

I also took some pictures which I will show here to give some more idea of the process.

Let's first have a look at the woodblock day on Monday - here are the two blocks:
























First, the black key block                                                                Second the grey underlayer



The black proof print:

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With grey layer under:

 

This is with the paler grey

 

 

 

With an over layer of acid blue:

 

 

 

 

Poorish photo but the final result was quite interesting - not sure about the blue.

 

 

 

Finally, here are a few more pipes:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.....but not least:

 

Public Print