Hotel room wood print

I'm letting the Cross Plains Main Street Reconstruction Survival Map rest for a bit,

so I uncovered this block which has been waiting for me. 

I will be teaching

 Whiteline Woodblock Printmaking again this year at the Peninsula School of Art.

June 11, 12, 13!  9AM to 4PM

Workshop ID PD1507

Whiteline woodblock printmaking at Peninsula School of Art, 2015

I'm teaching it again!

at the Peninsula School of Art, June 11, 12, 13 ! !
(Workshop ID PD1507)

I've been SO busy,

I've yet to organize my blogs, and update my LindaKelen-woodprint blog,

so HERE is where you can see a collection of my WhiteLine wood print posts.

Wood will soon be assembled for the next couple of new blocks,

the progress of which will be posted as I go along.

If you've got questions or concerns, send me a note.

I have begun working on a block of Shina Plywood.

Right now my mind is being held hostage by a Paddlefish.

the Peninsula School WhiteLine Woodblock Printmaking Workshop

I got so involved in this Peninsula School of Art workshop...

we really got moving, covering a lot of ground...

I  never thought about documenting the step by step

so I could later say, "here, look...this is what we did."

Well, I got some to show a little bit...

mostly, I was amazed at what we accomplished...

and what all I learned from them...

which was the real surprize.

Here they are" Joan, Anne, Sue, Anne,Donna & Donna.

Peninsula classrooms are simply great.

 

Joan had done more linoleum cutting than wood, so the pine I brought was like cutting through butter.

I wish I had the presence of mind to photograph of ALL the final prints everyone did.
Once they were all flattened, they took on a real presence....
yeh, wish I could have slowed me down...
get me arting, and I fire up, tending to forget some of the non-arting things that I should be doing.

Donna did a great duck besides this landscape:

Sue and Anne cut the same scene into earlier blocks...which of course I didn't take snaps of....

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Donna was fearless.

I wish I got a picture of Anne's last block,
on the large pine I brought....
complex....we ran out of time,
so she would be completing it on her own.
It's going to be a wonderful piece.
Anne has official Japanese woodblock printmaking under her belt, so it was interesting to see how she took to this process.
(I was envious of her working orderlines)



OH...and on the last day, Joan saw to it that we got to have a Cherry Pie.....geez.......

Yes...me.  
This was great.  
I want to do it again.  

Thanks, Anne, Anne, Donna, Donna, Joan, and Susan...you were a great class.
You really got a lot done...I think you learned a lot.
You caught on well,  you kept your knives sharp....your prints were wonderful.
 I hope you print those blocks again...and keep going.  
Cut and print another....you felt that thrill that grows as the print develops...............
it gets better.  
Keep me posted!