You know today may have been the first day in 3 weeks that I am feeling better since smashing my toe to bits.And I realized it when I saw all the smiles in my camera roll. I am now deep into editioning the first of 5 large blocks.
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Artist Maria Doering is holding a mini Takach brayer with yellow lithography ink on it. About to ink up the last colour of 8 on an original linocut block handcarved by the artist.

Inky table in the studio.

Artist Maria Doering pulling a print off the block.

Artist Maria Doering is posing in front of her artwork.

One full day of pulling one of these 8 colour prints. 6h of inking, 1h of hand printing and 2h of clean up.

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Maria with a variety of different cotton swabs working on wiping excess ink off her linocut block

Maria wiping the areas on her block that she doesn’t want a colour to be.

Giant cotton swab cuddles

Maria handprinting this block.

Self pronounced queen of cotton swabs. 😂

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