First Exchange of Year Completed

I started working on these angels so long ago. The first Image I created just annoyed me.



i dug the second image and moreover, the carving. It's on linoeleum and since lino was my first, well, since this incarnation, I think I've imprinted on it...

But I couldn't get the pigment stamp pad ink to cover it evenly-- it's too big. so I had to break out the lino ink. So hard (sob)... I hate it when I run no roll smack dab into disability. I can't tell if it is the height or just the mess but being vertical helps you dodge it and having to move myself with the same ink covered hands to then try to stmap the image was incredibly frustraing.


And still I could not get a consistently good print.





So I carved a third angel from an already existing image...... and I couldn't a good print. So I embossed her.
Sigh sigh. not what i wanted, but i mailed the set of 26 in before the deadline.... I need to figure out what to do about ink.... with papermaking, I jsut roll around wet, thus far and since i can't feel it, I'm not annoyed..... maybe when i get home and have a bathroom large enough vs worrying about a rug covered floor, etc... maybe i can try printing again....

Angel Carved

I've carved two angels for the Angel swap. One I like better than the other. It's the one I creaed to be a picture image and then decided to carve. The other I drew in an effort to make an angel, inpsired by the winged cracked egg--- I still want to do that--- of RahXephon.

Anyway, I decided that Angel 2 should be my Holiday Card offering to my family of friends and sought window cards for her. I found none for a long time and finally bought the ones at Walmart.... I actually first sought window cards
for ATCs.

Anyway these window cards for wedding pix, while not the most compelling of frames, does how the Angel, well. And the Angel, p[rinted on the photo paper I got with the printer and never used, printed glossily and easily, leaving an impression far more easily than on the watercolor paper.... hmmm....