Today I printed my charming little collagraph blocks. I smeared a dull grey glob of etching ink all over those pretty colors, wiping them down with tarlatan (a stiff kind of cheesecloth), rubbing them with my palm, wiping them again with newsprint, and finally running them through an etching press with damp paper. The prints came out looking something like blurry fossils on a
rock. I let the prints dry and then painted them with watercolors and they came alive again. I also enhanced the prints with a graphite pencil and a grey colored pencil to make the images stand out. And in the end, I even managed to clean most of the grey ink off the blocks and they are almost as good as new.
Today I printed my charming little collagraph blocks. I smeared a dull grey glob of etching ink all over those pretty colors, wiping them down with tarlatan (a stiff kind of cheesecloth), rubbing them with my palm, wiping them again with newsprint, and finally running them through an etching press with damp paper. The prints came out looking something like blurry fossils on a 
rock. I let the prints dry and then painted them with watercolors and they came alive again. I also enhanced the prints with a graphite pencil and a grey colored pencil to make the images stand out. And in the end, I even managed to clean most of the grey ink off the blocks and they are almost as good as new.
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