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Ishigami-san's progress ...
Posted by Dave Bull on September 27, 2011 [Permalink]
So far in these Conversations postings, I've been keeping you up to date with Tsushima-san's progress, but haven't said much about the second trainee here - Ishigami-san.
Partly this has been because she is basically doing the same sort of training work, simply a few 'rungs' further back on the ladder ... and how many images of the kagegami prints do you want to see?!
But over the past few sessions, it has become apparent that her built-in 'skill set' is different from the one that Tsushima-san has shown. For example, on Monday morning, I set her to work on making some copies of the famous Cat Bus image from the My Neighbour Totoro film:
(Before you ask, I have to say that no, I'm sorry we can't let you have any of these ... we have no rights to use this image commercially, and this is just for our own internal training ...)
i think there were maybe seven or eight sheets in her stack; I can't remember exactly. I got her started, and then turned to work with Tsushima-san on her project, not expecting to have to think about Ishigami-san for a while.
I was wrong. Maybe around a half-hour later, a bit more I guess, I turned to check on her, and found that she was done. Finished. All three impressions, on all the sheets. And they weren't half bad! (That's one of them, above.)
This lady is fast! Now there is a price being paid for that speed, and it is clear that she is being a big 'rough' in her approach. She's kind of jamming the paper into the registration marks, and as a result, some of the colours are a bit mis-registered. We're going to have to work on finding a better balance between speed and quality.
But it is indeed very interesting to see them moving in different directions already. Tsushima-san approaches her work in a very slow and careful manner. Her registration so far has been pretty much perfect, and the colours are (for the most part) smoothly applied. But the price she pays is speed ... or lack of it. We're going to have to work on finding a better balance between speed and quality!
:-) Fun!
Here's today's result from Ishigami-san, another in the 'manga' series of blocks that I have here ...
This is four impressions (resulting in six colours on the sheet), and she ran a batch of 15 copies (plus practice ones on dummy paper).
This will be the last update for nearly two weeks. In a couple of days I'm heading over to Vancouver for a 10-day family get-together/reunion. But these two ladies have the keys to the workshop, and they will be coming in on their usual schedule, to continue their practice sessions. They have blocks, paper, tools and everything they need. I'm looking forward to inspecting the stack of prints when I get back!
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