[image description: 3 photos of a small combination letterpress & hand-inked print, and a ph

[image description: 3 photos of a small combination letterpress & hand-inked print, and a photo of the relief letterpress materials used to print it. The 3x4 inch print is an illustration of a person stretching their arms over their head, topless and wearing a three-tiered skirt patterned with pink, blue, and grey flowers. The floral print is selectively letterpress printed, and in three passes, so that the three tiers of skirt are successively fainter towards the hem. The print isn’t framed with glass, just mounted and matted, and the inner edge of the matboard opening is bordered with a soft grey piece of handmade paper. The letterpress printing formes are assembled from many individual relief flowers cast in lead, one forme for the pink flowers and one for the blue. there are flowers in each forme that perfectly overlap, making the grey flowers by repeatedly printing in both pink and blue. end description.]okay the Pilot is very fun. easy cleanup. relatively fast for very small scale things. BUT i did clearly learn something about that scale aspect this time around f;lskdjfthe printing surface is so small, and then i made it smaller every time i tore packing away from the lower tiers of the skirt to get the feathering. so the differential between the ~5 pt. mylar mask and the 10 pt. tympan paper packing wasn’t enough in the upper tiers, and the impression came all the way through the mylar sometimes. still! there’s something really satisfying about these minis, and they also give me the freedom to use more varieties of decorative stuff since i don’t have to have so much of it to cover the area. i’ll keep thinking about small ones and work on controlling the pressure better.anyway sometimes i draw a shirtless woman because im gay and sometimes i draw a shirtless woman because i thought of a Cute Skirt but not a Cute Shirt that goes with it. actually hold up. i don’t wear skirts much but i would wear the fuck out of a sheer shirt in a fabric like this. fuck. i want it for me. uGH—wip -- source link

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