I cracked up at Diana Moll's comment on my last post. She spurred me on to finish the block and pull a proof before I called it a night! The proof is definitely a proof. I purchased some burgandy/wine colored paper for the book covers but the gold dust is still the shade that I will be using. This chinese red color is just a piece I had laying around. The color is okay but way too obvious for me. I didn't want to use a bright red because the chinese dragons would imply a "chinese restaurant feel" to me. It's definitely firey!
Here is the block locked up on the press bed ready for a slathering of ink. I couldn't decide whether or not to use a tinted ink or just tint base. I have decided for the books to just go with tint base. The colored paper is so dark that it will not be necessary to use any of my pigments for a "back up color".
Here is the print fresh off the press. The sticky tint base really shows.
Now we get to play in the gold dust! Static in the air really carried the particles so I'll need to don a face mask when I get ready for the real deal.
Pretty good for a days work I would say. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm finding it hard to type as my vermouth spiked peach cider is inhibiting my typing capabilities! Going to go pass out in bed now and dream of dragons dancing in flames...
4 comments:
My proof, my proof! Looks very great. LOL Your vermouth is well earned. I must say before I read the text I thought to myself that it would look best on a sort of red purple, and you've already done it!
Yeah the dragons in vermillion and gold has been done over, and over, and over, and over, and over.....
Beautiful! Can't wait to see it on the final color and compare them -
It's a beautiful image, Lana, and that gold dust will be perfect on the darker color. Lovely!
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