White Line Success!

Black and red printed over an ocher pass.

Waiting for Santa Paws

Block inked black and red, with some ocher tapped in.  Also powdered around the dog in the background to make sure the black didn't print thru.

This is the ocher pass I printed over ~ faint ocher didn't hurt the print any.  8-]

White line printing is much safer than printing all at once.  Also I can take better care to clean up lines, etc.  Need to ink the black sufficiently on the rotties.

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Need a break.  Mostly working 'cept for some darkness around the rear rottie.  Having trouble getting rid of the excess black there.  Something to be said for carving 2 blocks.  ;- ]

When I get back to it I'll try tapping in the dog's head instead of rolling the ink.

 Not too bad, but having some trouble around the rear dog's head.

Early Birds Printed

Callooh-Callay, a magical day!  I printed the whole run in one go.  8-]

That's never happened before.  And on a hot day too (when the ink dries out faster).  It just flowed.  8- ]

Of course I was using just one color, due to time constraints.  I'll mess with multi-colors on another run sometime.

 As soon as they're completely dry, I'll sign the backs and ship them off to Bea Gold and the Baren Forum Exchange #56.

This is the first time I've done a bleed print.  In fact the paper was a tad narrower than the block.  But I found it really easy to line it up because the block printed a rectangle on the liner paper underneath.

I like it when things conspire to work together.  8-]

So I guess I sign and number them on the back.  I'll get to that tomorrow, probably.  Then they'll wing their way to the moderator with my abject apologies for being so late.

Looking Out My Backdoor