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I'm still finding myself completely obsessed with the trees at Faulkner's home Rowan Oak. I took a last minute trip down there recently to sketch before more rain moved into the area and knocked down what was left of the trees. I poked around Square Books, had a quick picnic on the grounds, and roamed around with both my camera and sketchbook for several hours. I'm deeply grateful I did, because Covid finally caught up with me, and I'll be holed up solo here for a good while before it's safe for me to be around other people again. So I'm watching a bunch of guilt free BBC television and drawing out new prints in my lap. It's so good to have an absorbing project and a pile of good books.
Here is what thumbnails for prints look like, just to work out the design. Once I'm sure I like something, I'll draw it out full size (what I'm working on now), trace the drawing, and transfer it to the block with carbon paper, and then I'll carve. Sketching is so immediate gratification, and prints are so slow and deliberate, but I love the energy and rhythm of going from one to the other.
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