Below is the test-proof of the Jacob Wrestling the Angel of the Lord lino-cut. I have also included a few pictures of the process. The block size is 9 5/8″ x 7 1/2″, printed with Graphic Chemical bone black etching ink, on BFK Rives 250g paper.
Finishing up the cutting.
Preparing to ink the block.
The proof next to the block on the press bed. I use a Wepplo etching press set very light pressure and using one blanket.
This is a little three leg stool, turned from black walnut on the pole lathe. The seat is sawn, not turned, then I used a little gouge on the edges and where the tenons from the legs come through. The turning is intended to resemble bells and clappers.
Pictured below is a walnut slab bench that is meant to accompany the headboard-chest bed, also of black walnut.
A detail of the joinery – bridle joints join the legs to the aprons and are pegged, and the stretchers are joined to the aprons with sliding dovetails.
The Bed
Below is a stack of mostly quarter sawn red oak Quercus rubra for air drying. There is some green ash under that pile too.
a detail of some of the “ray flecking” on one of the boards.
The stack under cover.
Below are some updated photos of the “underdrawing” of the Walking Man and Jonah in the Ancient Ocean panel.
Detail 1
Detail 2
This is the egg-tempera under-painting of Moses in the Rocky Cleft panel.
In-progress graphite under-drawing on a poplar wood panel of Walking Man over a subterranean ocean with Jonah and the Sea-monster. This will be painted in oils.
Below is a photo of the frame for Heironymos Bosch Painting in His Studio. The frame is hard curly maple, cherry, and black walnut. I had troubles capturing a quality photo of the frame. Also pictured are a few new details: a great horned owl, bluebird, and some crows in the right-hand panel, and a plowman leading a pair of oxen on the left-hand panel.
A small bowl turned from green persimmon wood back in september. It has distorted as it dried.
