Posted by Dave Bull at 2:14 AM, January 7, 2012 [Permalink]
After more weeks 'off' than I care to think about, I got back to the bench this morning for the first carving on the final print in the Mystique series. Here's a Woodblock Webcam snapshot:
As you have seen from the images in the previous post, there is a fair amount of detail in this image, and most of the work will be done right down there at the tip of the blade - difficult for webcam viewers to see clearly I guess ...
Not directly related to the printmaking, but perhaps of interest ... A new 'tool' arrived at the workshop this morning:
It's an electricity monitor - that is going to help us track our usage more carefully. Here in Japan these days power supplies are quite tight due to the large number of reactors that have been taken off-line, and we're all being encouraged to control our usage as much as possible.
I'm actually not too much affected by this - my usage here is incredibly low as it is - but I'd still like to see where it can be reduced/controlled further, so I ordered this little meter that sits in the circuit and displays various data items on demand: watts being drawn at the moment, the cost on a per-day basis at that usage rate, and the accumulated KwH (and costs) since reset. It also has settings for CO2 usage, etc., but I don't think that is so useful.
This sort of information display should be built-in on all our major appliances, I think!