Though I was planning on printing the first color of the Diner print yesterday it didn't actually work out for me. I wound up spending a good amount of time going over the Hi-Land Dodge identifying the color separations.
I used the green for the light grey and the blue for the medium grey. Everything is black will be printed in either a very dark grey or black - I haven't decided on that yet, but I've found I'm not overly fond of straight black.
I had no intention of carving this piece, but figured I'd just do a little. I got a little excited I guess and would up finishing the carving for the paper white. I'm going to spend some time going back over it though so that I can double check that I did not miss anything. I probably should've identified all the white areas with a color as well, but I didn't. I left so much of the image the original battleship grey of the lino that it didn't really occur to me until I was already well into carving.
I used the green for the light grey and the blue for the medium grey. Everything is black will be printed in either a very dark grey or black - I haven't decided on that yet, but I've found I'm not overly fond of straight black.
I had no intention of carving this piece, but figured I'd just do a little. I got a little excited I guess and would up finishing the carving for the paper white. I'm going to spend some time going back over it though so that I can double check that I did not miss anything. I probably should've identified all the white areas with a color as well, but I didn't. I left so much of the image the original battleship grey of the lino that it didn't really occur to me until I was already well into carving.
I'm going to need to prepare some paper and I want to give the entire block a wipe down with mineral spirits before printing. I don't want any of the marker transferring to the paper and since my first color is marked in green there is a good chance of transfer. Maybe next time I'll choose to mark the white of the paper, and each color from #2 onward and leave the first printed color un-markered.
Printing should occur for this as well as the Diner print sometime this week. Though I will say that I'm rather nervous about altering the printing height of the press to print two different types of lino (mounted & unmounted). My press does not have fantastic measurements and I hate changing where I have things set.
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