The Canberra studio hosts another woodcut workshop

This weekend I’m running another weekend workshop in Canberra for three locals and one Sydney visitor. We’re once again doing our popular coloured woodblock two-dayer; one that I’ve offered in communities up north, and, more recently, in Melbourne, Sydney, Armidale and Albury. Blocks have to be drawn, cut and hand-printed onto chine colle paper on Day 1, allowing them time to dry overnight (water-based inks) so they can be pre-glued and coloured with powder pigment on the second day. The coloured chine colle sheets are them adhered to a Magnani backing paper and dried under boards. Here, Sue Hays is expertly clearing out an area of her block of Shina ply in readiness for the first proof.