This is the best of my first baby steps in printmaking. Two card plates. They’re supposed to align, roughly. I got the alignment all wrong!
Getting the amount of ink on the plates right is key. Soaking the paper onto which you’re printing is also important. Although how you do that – a misting spray, perhaps? – on multiple layer prints? I’m not sure.
It’s early days for us, of course… Day one, to be exact. But what fun! And we’ve got a lot to learn (and re-learn).
I scribed more linear ‘detail’ on the main plate. But forgot to re-shellac it… doh! And getting the inking right!? Nowhere near getting that right, yet.
The above is the nearest I got to getting the plates aligned as intended. Sadly the inking and printing are altogether more sketchy and random.
So… not one of these has come out as intended. Bug it’s all good. All learning and experience. We were both quite slapdash in our printing today. But enthusiastic.
