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From: Gayle Wohlken
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:13:06 GMT
Subject: [Baren 42177] Re: A Few Seattle Pix
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Annie, your work looks elegant in the "We Are Pilgrims" show in Seattle. It was fun reading your blog and watching these images unfold as you worked on them.

~Gayle Wohlken

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Subject: Printing again
Posted by: Andrew Stone


Starting on my Toggle print.
I managed to get one block printed today. A simple, single-color even wash.
It's a mixture of pthalo blue green and pthalo blue mixed with lots of rice paste to make a very transparent wash.
I usually would have started with the keyblock--the black and white block that outlines most of the color areas and in this case carries all the details, but I tried printing that first but my good printing paper is slightly uneven textured and was picking up some of the ink from the carved out areas from the shallowly carved letters.

SO I switched the order and am printing this block first--the pressure of printing the paper against the hardwood block will smooth out the paper and make getting a clean impression easier down the line. The line of very small print will end up printing over the bottom of the blue square later.

Here's the block I printed from and here's a very bad photo of the print pulled from it.

Sorry about the quality of the second photo--I'll replace it with a better one once I get my scanner back up.

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