![]() ![]() You're forced to really think about how the bird is put together. ![]() This may seem either silly or masochistic. Or, wait until another bird takes a similar pose. I need to try to remember the rest of the bird. Often I can only get one line down, like the breast in the female at lower left, before the bird is gone. Just as I start one another sparrow lands on or near him or her and starts fighting. When there are a lot of them feeding frantically I can assure you that they don't sit still for long. The sketch above is based on sparrows at my window. We often don't get snow until January! And yet that's the current forecast.īut the House Sparrows at my studio window feeder looked like they might be preparing for snow. Good Enough? Common moku hanga printing errors.I knew that it couldn't be true - 6 to 10 inches of snow this weekend for Philadelphia.In this case, there's also a bit of unwanted embossing at the bottom of the paper.but I guess I decided this was ok as, unlike the others pictured here, this copy ended up in the signed and numbered pile of finished prints. This can usually be remedied (partially) by reprinting the same color again but while the pale area will now be ok, the rest of that color area will be much darker from the printing of another layer of pigment. This will result in bald or uneven color patches. If the damp pigment dries on the block before you can lay your paper down it won't print. Sometimes, instead of too much pigment or moisture, there's too little. INK OUT OF GROOVES MOKU HANGA PATCHThe orange patch at the bottom of the "grassy area" is from the pigment drying on the block. Extra moisture and pigment will collect at the wood edges and can squish onto the surface when printing-especially on thin papers where the excess moisture has nowhere to go.ĭark Red Bokashi to tip of triangle has bled into the adjacent green. The double printing of the keyblock is usually the kiss of doom for me-it's just too noticeable an error for me to allow-and it's very frustrating as the second printing of the keyblock is often the LAST impression of many.Ĭolor bleeding: usually from printing too wet/sloppily. The other is just a color block that doesn't quite mesh with the others or the keyblock.īrown stripe at bottom way off paper probably shifted before I started to print with the baren. (thicker papers can often be printed exactly over and over again while thin papers are more subject to some kinking or shifting during the delicate stage of setting the paper into the registering notches). ![]() One is an attempt to overprint the keyblock but either the paper or wood size has changed throwing it off just a bit or I had issues laying the paper down exactly right on both impressions. Out of register this comes (in my work) in two versions: The double black line is from a failed attempt to overprint the keyblock. I'll list some of the common errors that I found in my last few prints and try to post some photos that illustrate the defects. Sometimes I find myself with NO perfect prints.then I'm more prone to look at the prints I do have to try and decide if I should start over or try to pull out the few that aren't really spoiled by their imperfections. Some defects really are ok at my level of printing-they show that these are hand made occasionally add vibrancy or energy to a print and do indeed become measures of where I am now as a printmaker. (But at least one of these will still happen once with each new print I make, so I'm not immune.īut as I start to number prints in an edition that took a long time I find myself thinking long and hard about the culls. I no longer find myself gluing my expensive paper to the blocks from too much paste and not enough time for the block to charge with moisture and I very rarely print on the wrong side of the paper or inadvertently lay the paper down from the wrong corner throwing off the registration. In the trash bag print the spotting was too intrusive and obviously a mistake while in the little fulcrum print, the black streaks in the gray mass/color look like, and were, deliberate- even if there is a lot of print-to-print variability in how visible they are (from differences in baren pressure during printing). IF they are at the borders of the paper-well outside of the print area -or if they don't really detract from the visual impact of the print I usually allow some level of spotting. These are still concerns and do still crop up from time to time-especially if I am tired or at the end of a long printing run. ![]()
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