Well I was working but I wouldn't call it progress. I'm working with a coach to help me achieve my goals and stay on the right track and the other day we were talking about my larger goals. My goal is to have all 30 of my prints carved and printed by January 15, that gives me 3 1/2 months to do all that. My coach helped me narrow down my goals. To hit that goal I would have to work on almost 10 prints a month, which is almost 2-3 prints a week. It's a lofty goal and I think I'm up for the challenge.
Then came the first night. I got my first two prints drawn out and carved. I was ready for my first color.
Things were going smoothly but it was taking time. I was in the studio that night for 5 hours working on the first color of these two prints. There was a lot of preparations to get done at first, not every night of printing will take that long (thank goodness). From tearing paper to mixing colors, I was heading in the right direction, now I was ready to print. So with the radio cranked up, away I went.
The first colors laid down nicely except for one thing. I will almost always draw with sharpie onto the sintra I carve on. Sometimes when I print, a ghost image of the sharpie comes throught but fades away after the first few prints. These ones didn't but that didn't bother me because I knew that there was more colors to come that the sharpie would get covered up. Not really the case. The sharpie lines stayed pretty apparent on the paper interfering with some of my carved details.
BLAST!! All that hard work for nothing. I thought about just going along with it but I know that I'm still early in the game right now. I can cut my losses early and start over on a print that I'm happy with instead of trying to fix one that might or might not look okay when I finish.
Anyway, this is why this is my print fail. 12 hours into my printing time and I'm back to square one.
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