Rachel's in Germany!: Long day. But I have art pictures!

Everybody hard at work this morning

Boy, today felt like it went on forever. It's still humid and warm, maybe like upper 70s to low 80s, and today in the print shop was icky. We all had to clean up the print shop and put everything away, and we also had to assemble our print series for display in the exhibition. Both my intaglio and mezzotint classes were there to get set up. Thank goodness the woodcut students weren't in there too . . . that would have been too many people! It took a long time to take out all the prints from between the drying boards, organize them, and get them ready for display. Katrin and Louise helped us figure out the best way to display each set of prints. I was tired from staying up late to watch the game, and my neck decided to seize up while I was sleeping, so I had a headache all day. Plus I didn't pack a big enough lunch (I didn't realize how long I would be there), and of course there was the humidity and heat, so it was a tough seven hours. But I got my series of "The Magic Flute" all done and framed up in a paper frame (cutting it took forever, but it looked great when it was finished!), and I also framed the three prints of Grandma that I had done for mezzotint class. Not the series of five I had planned, but three looked just fine for the exhibition. I'll go back to the open vacation workshop sometime in the next week or two and finish the last two prints. Louise isn't making me do it, but I want to have a complete body of work, and I know if I don't finish it now I'll get sidetracked by new projects and it will remain incomplete forever.

When I finally got home at like 5:15, I crashed out and took a nap. I didn't even feel like eating when I woke up, but I knew I probably needed to, so I went to the kitchen and made a salad. I ended up making scrambled eggs with veggies after that, and then nibbling on sesame pretzels and frozen grapes and some chocolate after that. Yeah, I definitely needed food . . . once my metabolism got going again, I was REALLY hungry!

Patrick, who lived in this apartment for a couple of years before I came but moved out to a different place back in April, dropped by to pick up a letter that had come for him, and he and Indra were talking in the kitchen when I went in to make dinner. The three of us ended up talking for a while, which was fun. I also had a clumsy moment and dropped my bag of frozen veggies, and peas and carrots and mushrooms and little pearl onions went all over the kitchen floor. Some of them I picked up and rinsed them off, then cooked them into my scramble anyway, but our floor isn't the cleanest so most of them ended up being put in the trash.

Anyway, I finally have photos of my print series!!! I'm so excited to finally show them to you! Here they are . . . they're not as good quality as they would be if I had scanned them, but it'll give you the idea.

Intaglio Course

Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

Aquatint Series