Relief Print Proofing

Video Transcript

"Once I have a nice, even layer of ink on my blocks surface, I look at it. It looks like a sheet of ink into the surface. This will let me know that I don't have areas that have globs of ink in them or areas that are lighter than others. I should be able to get a pretty goof proof off this block. I'm using a sheet of kitti kata paper, this is a Japanese paper that is absorbent and should take a pretty good image of this print. I'm not spending too much time since this is just a proof. I'm not spending too much time worrying about where this block of wood is going to show on this piece of paper. It's basically about the same size of my block of wood. I'm just going to lie it on top. Press it down with my hand. Doing this, I'm getting so that this piece of paper is stuck to my block of wood. It's not moving anywhere and I can move the block around more freely without worrying about it shifting. Today, I'm using this baron to give a really quick proof. Making circle motions over the paper and pressing down onto the block of wood to get my impression. If I want to see how things are going I can peek by lifting it up and then I can see how it's being pulled off. These bits of circles right here are areas where there's hard pieces of ink that have created a little tiny relief amount on the surface to keep it from printing all white. If I wanted to, I could attempt to pull out that piece and re-ink but normally with a proof I wouldn't spend too much time worrying about something like that."