posting problems

System problems have prevented me from posting here...
so, I've been posting at Artings.

Carved Soap Photographer....& studio progress update

This may be the oldest bar of soap I've got...

The Photographer....with his Deardorf view camera....1974
Views of all sides can be seen here.

Getting the studio back in working order is slow...
the Wrist not dealing well with too much activity too quickly.
I want to get back to the woodblocks.
I'm making plans for a very small one....
a little tester...
just to see how the wrist does...

Geez...I just want to have that feeling again.

My Carved Soaps

(Naked Lady on a Couch...bath-sized bar of Ivory soap)
I decided to have a friend photograph them...
which I should have been doing all along...
there are about 27 left.
This is the last Naked Lady on a Couch...
two sold, the other was a birthday present for a friend.

It started when I was a kid...
me and dad at the kitchen table.

I know there are better ways and better things to pour my hours into.

I've been successful at staying away from the soap
for a couple years now.....
but, these pictures that Eric took...
geez....
he made them look so good...
just like I see them...
just like I think about them....
that smell....
that feel....
how the knife eases through the soap.....
finding the surprize within each bar....
looking at these pictures...it's all back.

I've been so good for so long...
maybe a bar or two would be ok................

I'm posting the other views at Artings if you want to really see it.

One by one I'll get them all posted...
and probably eventually give them their own blog
(especially if I find myself cutting again).