Mushrooms!

What a crazy few weeks this has been. But enough of that.

Since I last posted, I have learned one new printing technique (two weeks ago) and gone on one hike (today).

Here is my first reduction print ever. I just wanted to whip something out in a spare 15 minutes, and was amazed at my success. I was just going for a proof of concept project. If I'd known it could look so good I would have been a lot more thoughtful about what I carved and about registration. But then I wouldn't have had the time to do it at all.

I carved a very bad mushroom and a little bit of detail into Speedball's soft pink rubber block stuff and stamped it in teal. I stamped again next to the original to clean the block. Then I carved some more and stamped over the first prints in purple. (These being the only functioning ink pads I have on hand.)

A huge pay-off for such simple labor! I am imagining what I might be able to accomplish with some actual planning.

Today I went out to find real mushrooms with someone who knows about mushrooms. She knew all the names. I don't remember any of them.

Except for the morel. Which we left in place.

Packed the cameras

and made it back to the car

before the clouds burst