Day Two - Dedication and Progress

What a lovely day we had today! Cool in the morning, warm throughout the day, an amazingly blue sky and eleven hard working artists carving, inking and printing plates all day long. The beginners are starting to get a hang of things and some of the more experienced artists made some beautiful pieces again. Everybody is enjoying the experience immensely it seems and unless I call breaks occasionally people just immerse themselves in their work. 

Osvaldo Pitoé. 

Carneval.

We start our day at 8am, take a break around 10:30am with sweet, juicy, fresh grapefruit that have been donated to us (well, I had to climb up into the tree to pick them along with Clemente...I don't recall the last time I sat way up in a grapefruit tree), 12:30pm we all eat Guiso (stew) together that we cook outside on the open fire, and the rest of the afternoon we make prints till 5pm. It's a long but satisfying work day and I come home exhausted. 

Below is Osvaldo carving his plate after having pulled a testprint.