Ghost Print

Day six: the second brown (burnt sienna and raw umber) layer. This is the seventh layer of ink and I'm in uncharted territory. I haven't made a reduction print with more than six colours before. The main issue is that the paper is now saturated with ink from the underlying layers so the latest layer of ink tends to float on top and is taking longer  to be absorbed even with good quality Japanese printing paper. To speed  up the drying process I'm taking a 'ghost' print. That is, when the print comes out of the press I put a sheet of newsprint (low-cost non-archival paper made from wood pulp) on top and then hand press it with a barren. This removes any  excess ink and leaves a ghostly mono version of the design on the newsprint.  The ghost print is, of course, a mirror image of the actual print.