Guess who made their first polyester lithography plates
at home today!!!(!!!)
(And I only had to return to the store to exchange the printer once, and yes, when the first plate printed, I jumped around the house while my feline assistants looked on perplexed, probably thinking: "crazy human.")
But it works(!!!!)
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| new polyester plates, laid over the cartoon. |
This is excellent news because it means the large block I'm carving can be the last for the giant wings; AND if the printing goes well, and I can get good enough at joining and printing the polyester plates, then I can scan and flip the wing blocks and transfer them onto polyester plates instead of carving a second wing (fingers crossed!) This would save me hundreds of hours of work - not that I don't want to put the time into carving, more that, now that I've carved it once, I don't really see the benefit of carving it a second time as a mirror image. I'd much rather spend that time carving something new (like a unicorn perhaps?)
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| Progress on the final wing block. |
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keeping my carving pillow warm for me - such an
excellent helper |
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| Initially, I thought there were going to be 5 blocks, but it turns out there are 8 parts, 7 block/plates, with one of the polyester plates being used twice. Then again, I thought there were 18 blocks/plates in the figure, but when I counted, there are 34; so, not the best track record on estimating here - maybe just like everything takes longer than I think, everything is also more parts? |
It wasn't all blocks and plates this week (though mostly, it kind of was :p ), I've also continued with the January "Big Clean." Still not quite finished with this, but made progress on the stairwell down to the basement - discarding, cleaning, repainting...fortituuuuuude!
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Some very exciting developments in the works...stay tuned :)!
