Did some screen printing today of the more refined brush and ink drawings of Mercury, Mars and Jupiter. I did them all orange, even though Mercury is actually grey coloured, just for simplicity at this stage. Somerset unsurprisingly takes the ink the best, though I only tested on the off white somerset which alters the colour slightly.
A lot of the texture behind the linework wasn't supposed to be there - the image didn't wash out very well after exposing. I presume this was because I printed my positive using the studio printer and it doesn't handle solid black very well, but Mike said that if I find the screen hard to wash out it could be that it's been over-exposed and I should try out using only 150 light units as opposed to 170. I'll try that out next time I do some print tests.
This is closer to the sort of colour mercury would be:
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