It was a photo job day. A fun photo job that took me farther out of my comfort zone than I expected, and sent me to a place I can’t wait to get back to with a film camera.
The rest of this sunny day included a great lunch date, time for yoga, and a bit of work at home. I am procrastinating finishing and framing prints for an upcoming art show. Maybe next week I will get to those.
On Friday I finished three runs before it was time to be done. I can really feel myself getting closer to the end now. Sunday I stayed up late getting the negative ordered for the last few polymer plates I have to remake. Things are coming together. It will be a few days before I can print again due to a photo job and an appointment to get my hair dyed. But I am honestly quite happy to have a short break.
In other bits, this weekend felt wonderfully long, and I was able to spend a lot of time with John running off to new places, and old favorites. It was lovely. We also managed to finish two of the many yard work projects we have going. Cheers to a new week!
I know my printing time has been gradually decreasing over the last week. Each color run I finish completed the hashtags for one more page, meaning each run I do there are 32 pages less to print on than the time before. Today was the first day I really noticed that it was taking me less time to print. I finished two color runs in only 3 1/2 hours. I still have 8 more color runs, plus a large run for the map, and three short runs for the colophon, and title page. I am making up the colors as I go.
Two more color runs done today. And noticing the colors appearing in my yard. Plus time working at the library. Looking forward to yoga tomorrow. Going to bed early. Hoping my brain that can form complete sentences returns tomorrow.
I made it past the half-way point today!
Also, it is Holga Week! It has been awhile since I have brought my Holga with me. So, I have it in my bag this week. Today I photographed my letterpress project with it.
Maybe I will get a photo of the river tomorrow with it.
I managed to squeeze in two word runs instead of only one. Both were runs that had multiple words switching between pages, requiring a lot of organization. I am a bit uncertain about the blue color I mixed yesterday. I hope I feel better about it today when I see it again. I am actually getting very close to the halfway point of printing. Of course a couple of other large deadlines are creeping up on me…closer than I would like to admit. But I do keep making progress, and that is what counts!
Last run for this week. I mistakenly thought I would be pretty close to the end of printing within two weeks. That is not the case. Now I am quite curious about how long this will actually take me….
It was a big day in many ways. Of course it was another printing day, with one more word and one more color pressed onto pages. I also got to help take apart the press and clean her up! You never know what you will get to do during open studio hours at MCBA! All of this was followed by a beautiful bike ride home. Wash, rinse, repeat tomorrow.
I admit it. I skipped yoga class today to print more. But I managed to get two runs done instead of only one. Two colors instead of one. One single word run, and one run made up of three words. It felt good to make that much progress!
Another day of printing tomorrow, and monitoring the screen printing studio tomorrow night. I love being at MCBA as much as I am right now!
