Printmaking workshop - ‘failures’

The workshop started with quite a long session where each participant explained what they had brought with them and why they had run into difficulties with their prints. It was interesting and uplifting to realise others have failures and difficulties too. The tutor (Tracy Hill) was quite remarkably encouraging and had loads of suggestions for things to try. 

We all then set about working with different types of plates, resolving different problems. I chose four plates to work on simultaneously. One I ended up cutting down! It’s much the better for it. 

Later I visited a cousin whose husband has just gone into hospital with vomiting, headache and neck pain. The registrar has diagnosed ‘a gastric problem’; I suspect a bad reaction to the covid vaccine which he had received a couple of days before the emergency. I guess we will never know as he seems to be improving. 

Back at the cottage I had an early night after a long conversation with Mr Flossmo. He took Sky to the vet’s in the morning and she is now stitch free and more importantly from her point of view cone free. She spent the day sleeping and grooming apparently. Alls well that ends well.