Before the christmas holidays I was having trouble trying to print with a block background, but when I started doing it again, every single one came out with a block background. I'm not sure what changed but I think it might be because I started wiping the board down with tissue after I washed the ink off and I think it just got rid of any excess soap.
I was still encountering some problems though:
- when using the bigger board I kept getting white curved lines across the print even when making sure the board was clear of any soap or oil. I didn't mind that texture when it was quite faint but on some prints it was too defined
- when getting a pretty much perfect print, there would sometimes be annoying little ink marks on the wrong bits that looked too distracting from the rest of the print
- I had to cut out some more stencils because the ones I had used before had too much leftover ink on them that the interfered with the print by making the figures too dark, or sometimes the red ink wasn't strong enough
- there were some good mistakes, like with the houses that had some leftover ink on them, they gave some more texture to the print and varying shades which looks good
- some prints would again come out perfect but just be slightly out of place on the paper so there would be a light boarder round some of the print, although I quite liked how that looked
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