More of the Week with Richard

I was a little apprehensive about printing over this heavily textured background, but my fears were quickly thrown out the window. As you can see from plate # 2, it printed very smoothly.

So far so good! But, would the blue produce a green I could live with?

I do believe this is going to be just fine. So, here comes the next one!

As you may have noted - this is now on the good paper. It is Echizen Kozo from McClain’s. And, now for the final block - the sumi. This is where I will screw up if I haven’t managed to do so already -

Sunrise in the Garden of Mischief.

Whew - There are still a few places needing trimming when I print the edition, But I’m pleased with the proofs.

Richard asked what we wanted to get out of the class the first day we met. I said I wanted to improve my cutting and I believe I did that. This is all shina plywood, again from McClain’s. Richard had us coat the line plates with Elmer’s, or any white, glue and I believe that helped any chipping off, though I had a few of those, they were mainly my fault and not that of the wood.

I hope you enjoyed seeing this print evolve.

So we left off here with a background plate of texture produced by a piece of plastic sheeting cut to fit the image size and adhered with carpet tape.

Saturday, September 1, 2007

More of the Week with Richard

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