The Paint is All Dry and Crusty

The paint is all dry and crusty on my pallet. I have not painted for four days and "The Poetry of Craftsmanship" opens in six weeks! Everybody is working like crazy. It's not often I'm so scared and excited at the same time. I'm working on ideas for an engraving. I can visualize the tiny threads of copper curling up in front of my sharp burin. Unlike etching, engraving will print the very finest of lines. Every plate is hand wiped before it goes on the press. I'll do fifty small prints in a day. By three o'clock the palm of my right hand will be sore and no amount of scrubbing will get the ink out.

Adrian