The Art of Printing

It's Tuesday now and I have done a LOT of printing since my last post. I spent about 3 hours or so on Friday and another 4 on Monday at the printing press. I now feel like I know that printing press a little too well! 

I learned the process of producing well prints through many trial and errors. Some of these errors include: not lining up my lino and paper correctly, putting too much ink on the lino plate, and the biggest of all, forgetting to put down newspaper over the lino plate and paper. This resulted in getting ink on the matting of the brand new printing press,(I am really, really, truly, very sorry Mrs.Woods). On the bright side, if there is a bright side, the matting can be flipped over. Again, I am really sorry!

Here is what my experiences so far with printing have taught me: never forget to cover up you lino plate and paper, don't put too much ink on the plate, make sure the pressure on each side of the press is equal, wash you plate frequently and WAIT for the plate to dry before your print again ( I have ruined several prints just because the lino plate was still wet). When you do multiples wait for ink to dry before you print on the paper again. And most important, don't forget to cover up you plate and paper when you got to print.    

This one so far is my favorite, i am happy with the way the red and black look with each other. I also like the way the print turned out.

This is another of my favorites.

All of my single prints.

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I am going to do another one like this but with black and red.