1:50pm Aus where you are = 10:50pm the previous evening in central Usa
it seems??? It's 5:50am as I write and I'm just ready to head to the
studio.
I have mostly been drawing and painting lately and haven't pulled a
woodcut in over a year, I think! At my 'peak' (2003/2004 preparing
for my hanga exhibition in Kyoto which was my first solo show and came
about ONLY because of my participation in BarenForum -- a series of
amazing coincidences) I pulled way more than 50,000 impressions in one
year -- I became pretty facile then -- but that was by far my most
productive printmaking year ever!
If Tom Kristenson is anywhere near you, see if you can visit and watch
him print -- that'll give you a humongous jump start -- he's a good
printer, IMO!! I started exactly like you in 1996 (but without the
benefit of BarenForum - I sorta made it up crudely as I went along
based on very little reading and I got crude but interesting results -
later that year, I took a 2-week intensive (14 hour days) workshop and
was 'hooked'). Stumbled into BarenForum several years later and
really benefitted! Listen, especially to David Bull for technical
advice - he is FAR more experienced than I and has a much more typical
printmaker personality (he is very picky and precise while I am always
very sloppy and trying to get it done fast)!
-- Mike
Mike Lyon
Kansas City, Missouri
http://mlyon.com
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jennifer kelly wrote:
> Thanks soooo much Mike. How many thousands have u printed? Is it my
> imagination, or do u keep very odd hours? Its 1.50 pm Australian
> time. What time does that make it in Kansas?
> Jenny