At the end of October I went to my last Printfest of the year. That’s when I take my plates along & just print all day. I had two new solar plates this time, made from my own sketches.
For some reason the ink on the big roller with the blend on it wasn’t cooperating, and I got stripy areas with less pigment. No matter how much I wiped the roller, replenished the ink & rolled it up again, I still got some stripy variations in the pigment. Maybe it was the weather.
This first print is from this drawing. It was inked up in sepia with red on the flowers. Unfortunately we lost the red because of having to roll over more than once to get rid of stripyness. That’s printmaking for you.
The next plate is my blue-point Himalayan cat, Casper. These two prints were done by laying threads on the plate, then rolling across with a hard roller with a single colour on it. Then the plate was rolled over again with the large soft roller with the blend. 
The ink only picks up where the previous ink missed. (Read about viscosity printing on my glossary page).
This plate was taken from this drawing on the lower right. I think I prefer the blue, because he is blue-point, but both colours were available, so I tried both.
Haven’t been over here for awhile, life gets so busy at times. I am glad I don’t have a job as I wouldn’t have time to go to it
i like the gel plate, solar prints and your time at the zoo etc. You are prolific in creating. Excellent.