Photo of the Day: Queen of Hearts

The Queen’s keyblock is up and ready for use!  My sophomore portfolio review is this Thursday, so I’ll be printing a plain black & white edition, but she’s supposed to have color in the end.  I still have to print on the color block & carve that, so she’ll be fully printed & framed by Sunday.

This is my second woodcut, and I’ve already made major improvements from the White Rabbit.  The carving is much more precise, and took me twice as long, which explains the carpal tunnel in my fingers and my right elbow.

I really need to thank one of the best woodcutting bloggers on the internet for her enormous archive of postings, Annie at Woodblock Dreams.  There are numerous postings which serve as my research for my “Independent Media Research” projects, and she [unknowingly] led me in all the right directions for supplies and techniques so far.  I love her blog because she posts so regularly, records most of her carving and printing processes, explains the research that goes into each piece of work, and talks in detail about her supplies.  Not only is she an amazing artist who only started playing with moku hanga a few years ago, she’s an excellent blogger and her website is an invaluable resource.