having the attention span of a gnat I have returned to play with the plates I used a while ago. They were a first etch- just to see what happened, and while I should print them first in black ( I guess) often they get printed in what ever is already out- hence the fact that I started off using them with coloured ink.
I made 4 plates of the same size. I had planned to layer them up with coloured inks until I achieved something beautiful and which captured the feel of the image in my head, but it didn't work like that.
For anybody who doesn't print- you need to understand that 'registration' is what it's called when one plate is placed ( seamlessly) on top of another so that the composite parts form a single image. The 'seamlessly ' but is the difficult bit.
There are lots of different ways that this can be achieved
Firstly I tried the method of catching part of the paper under the roller ( so it couldn't move) while I changed the plate on the template ont eh bed. This is generally pretty foolproof as you're only moving one element rather than 2.
But that clearly didn't work for me today.
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And then I decided I'd revert back to my usual method where both the plate and the print are moved and placed back in exactly (!!!!) the same positions.
The result of this is below.
As you can see the plate registration is basically OK at the bottom, but look what has happened at the top. I thought the plates are the same size, but they're not- so I can't use one of these plates i this way. need to check the other 2 for congruence.
I'm not even going to comment on the colour combination here- they are colours that work together well- on some plates- but these aren't plates where they do.
The other thing I'm pretty sure of is that I need to re etch all of these plates, they are a bit weedy ( no pun intended!)
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