Its been a week or more since I wrote last. Either I have been so involved in making that I haven’t had the time, or I suddenly lost my tongue and got reticent.
Tonight I embark on ‘having a go’ at making an animation. The method looks quite straightforward, but I’m not sure I have started out on the right foot as the wooden blocks with the cut birds that I plan to use as the centerpiece are inky and stained from printing. No beautiful clear cuts to be seen. I’ve been cleaning them with white spirit but the wood has sucked in all the ink. Ok, first lesson learnt.
There’s no noise of the local football at St James Park tonight, just sea gulls, and the next door neighbours’ children bouncing. Mine are long sleeping since they were up in the night and up early in the morning.
I did some intense printing this afternoon, its tiring you know. All that rolling, wiping, thinking, concentrating, checking for inky fingers, wiping, cleaning, and cleaning again. I have created a building shaped wood cut filled with a backdrop of trees (from Haldon Forest, nr Exeter) and four windows. The windows are for the birds.
