
{"id":1211,"date":"2011-08-17T12:51:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T16:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2017-11-17T11:37:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T16:37:15","slug":"print-class-last-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/print-class-last-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Print Class: Last Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIt&#8217;s been a week since my last post. There was no class last week and that worked out as I had planned to go to Maine with the Garden Gals and visit the Main Botanical Gardens at that time. That&#8217;s a post for another day, but needless to say I didn&#8217;t get any print making done while I was there. I did pick up my work from Thurs before I left and here are two scans: one of one printed by hand at home and one on press at school. Still a bit rough but improving.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/print\/green.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/print\/green_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Getting ready to ink\" width=200\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/print\/tan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/print\/tan_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Adjusting pressure\" width=200\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Two Tone Green, printed on press<\/em> and <em>Tan, printed by hand<\/em>.<\/h5>\n<p>When I got home from Maine I reworked my  design to include the whole image, scanned it and placed it into Illustrator where I redrew it to get clean lines and to delineate where I was to cut and not. I was able to transfer it to my larger block and begin cutting.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/print\/final.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/print\/final_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Getting ready to ink\" width=300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Working on my last print for this class.<\/em> <\/h5>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t get it cut in time for class but I went anyway to show where I was and to get some feedback. This was my last class. I will finish it and try printing it by hand but now I am at a point where I want to drop back and hone my skills (I do like the design). I purchased some better paper on the way home and have down loaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodblock.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Bull<\/a>&#8216;s e-book on Japanese woodblock printing, <em>Your First Print<\/em>. So, the adventure continues!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a week since my last post. There was no class last week and that worked out as I had planned to go to Maine with the Garden Gals and visit the Main Botanical Gardens at that time. That&#8217;s a post for another day, but needless to say I didn&#8217;t get any print making&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/print-class-last-class\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[383,225,226],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-printmaking","tag-printmaking","tag-david-bull","tag-your-first-print"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4216,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/4216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}