printing marathon

Ok so this is a painting beginning (more to come as I'm playing with four 'dancers' pieces)

 But here is the marathon.  36 degrees in the studio and no fan as the light Hosho paper in small pieces was struggling enought not to fly away or roll back up with the light weights I was using.
So, I needed to do a print run of about 20 per print block . . . and hadn't really calculated how much paper (and paper tearing) and hand printing using the barron (round thing) this would actually entail.  Durh.

 As the paper that works for these quite quite detailed and small prints is quite thin, I need to use tracing paper on the back when I rub so the barron and the back of the print don't end up all inky.

 I realised how many small slightly weighty things I have in the studio as I was casting around to find things to stop the prints from either flying away or curling up (the Hosho light paper I love comes in a roll so is always a bit curly)

Production central!

 And the clean up of the plates (and one extra that I wanted to check mid carve - bottom left)