There's a Youtube video of Tal R making a woodcut print. During the process he says, "If it looks good on the block, it'll look good in the print." I've come to understand that view. If a block doesn't look good, making a mirror image print won't be enough to cure it. And a good-looking block has never let me down. Looking at the blocks for this print as I cut them, I knew they were coming good.
Carnations are among the earliest flowers to impinge on my mind. My parents had red ones, white ones and pinks in the garden. They seemed to have a weed-like character. You could pull bits off, stick them in the ground and tthey would grow. A great lesson to us all.
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