Having cut a fourth plate in an effort to bring off a three colour image - and found it to be ‘busy’ and confused - l reverted to the two colour print and ended up with some reasonable results.

These are images of an inked up plate and stages of the image before the final black line.







and some of the final results:










Although l have used water washable relief inks exclusively up to this point, l was finding that the black line was often erratic in definition and impact. Part way through this project l tried out a traditional oil based black and found it to be more consistent and delivered a much deeper and luxuriant quality - only offset by the more laborious cleaning up procedure which would deter me from switching all my colours to traditional oil based!