from a trip out to see the handsome family at the HPPH with my mate simon hall - a quick bus ride from town out up the burley road when i very nearly forgot to draw.
this old-ish guy with the pony tail and the novel was very friendly, letting me on ahead of him. this is the second attempt i made at this print. it was a tricky one to get right, and in the end i decided to just get it done and not worry too much about it; treat it as a bit of a 'loosener' to get me back in the swing of printing again [as i'd been distracted by the day job for a while and the printing had been effectively shelved for a month or two]
i've got pretty good at writing and lettering backwards during this project. ideally, you check the drawn block in a mirror before cutting it to make sure that you've reversed everything properly. i didn't do that here, and as a result the first print revealed that the 'd' in 'lady's' was a 'b' and i had to butcher the block a bit to resolve the typo...
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