Woodblock Wednesday - the quest for deep and even colour continues

At the start of the day -

Blocks tweaked to bring in more white

Earlier prints (two versions)

 Each of these had been overprinted to try to get a deep and even colour -

Cyan gouache, with a little viridian hue mixed in

 First try with the second block was pale on top of the splotches -

Indigo, looking quite black!

Splotchy block with the indigo re-inked - a bit better, but still an example for me "how not to print" series -

I'd been using "the shoebrush" to apply the colour, and switched to using it to apply nori - that worked a lot better, in fact in overprinting it got rid of the splotchiness. Also I thinned the paint quite a lot, and made consistent brushstrokes, lightly, before printing -

Back to the indigo "curls" - definitely not deep&even enough! I didn't want to risk misregistration so instead of inking the entire plate, I did it half at a time -

 At the end of the day -

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