The one on the right is finished, more or less, ready for a trial print. I've never particularly enjoyed carving lino, and I like it even less now that I don't have much energy. I can carve for about twenty minutes at a time; once upon a time, I would have carved something like this in a single sitting. So it's taking quite a long time to get these blocks ready to print, because if I do something else, like work on a book, that's the energy used up, so the blocks have to wait. What I really need is a slave...cough...assistant...but that's not going to happen. These will be the last carved blocks I make, I think. Mono printing will be my method of choice in future, and I intend to try collagraphy, which has been on my to do list for years, but I've never actually done. Must try to find a workshop, locally. Or an online course, perhaps.
There's a lot of grunt work in textile art...all the preparation for dyeing, for instance, scouring the cloth, mixing the dyes, rinsing (my personal favourite, not...), and finally...ironing...groan... I think that people who don't do this stuff, don't appreciate that... I think they think we all sit around in a genteel manner, hand stitching... well, okay, sometimes we do...but sometimes we lug gallons of water around....
So...that's it for today. We'll doubtless go out, so I might be able to get some photographs...here's hoping...
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