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Subject: Black and Blue, Again
Posted by: Andrew Stone

Well, this was my last attempt at proofing my Domino print before printing in earnest. I managed to get a deep dark "black" even if this is really a deep purple; it was achieved by printing carbon black, over a rich, very dark purple, over a vermilion red, over a peach/tan. By burnishing REALLY hard I managed to get out all the little white specks of unprinted paper. (and let it dry unpressed so there are some wrinkles). My shadow, while a great color in itself, is too high key and warm and generally wrong for a shadow so it will have to get darker and cooler. As for the domino body, it's dark and blue-black but maybe not as interesting as the earlier, multicolor trials. Tomorrow, I'll start printing. I hope to print 50 copies and will probably decide as I'm sitting in front of the blocks, with all my proofs tacked to the wall in front of me, which direction I'll go in. The mood, and final print is greatly controlled by my first color--the background block and that will likely be the most important choice. (I've tried hansa yellow, yellow ochre, pthalo blue green, cobalt blue and this peach (mix of cadmium orange and buff titanium). But first, and once again, the damp paper, despite my having cleared the blank parts of the blocks carefully is still . . . [Long item has been trimmed at this point. The full blog entry can be viewed here]

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