Compositionally it was my favourite print but I also felt that it was also sellable. I think all of my prints were quite good for this in that they almost don't say too much about the author, and can hopefully be appreciated by those who don't necessarily know Murakami's work.
For this run of prints I tried out a new method which also turned out to be easier and saved some time. Instead of printing the two colours separately I would ink them both at the same time and print together. There were a few issues but mostly resulted in a clean print.
On the left is a close up of a mark that I'm not sure how it got there. It could be something to do with the pressure of the press as I had been fiddling with it, or maybe how the ink was rolled. On the right I was trying to be clever and protect the paper from some ink on the template with some tissue paper but it moved in the press and caused this.
As a whole these printed quite well and I mostly owe this to spending so much time practicing print making. Each of the prints are unique in alignment and how much they fade and I hope this adds to their selling point and doesn't just make me look like an inconsistent printer!
However there's something about these prints that I don't like in comparison to the original smaller version. The texture in the yellow added to the first version I think but I could not achieve this with the new printing method. Minor errors become more noticeable in the larger format and there's something in the characters, particularly in the eyes, that feels lost. I hope that because potential viewers aren't comparing these to the original design that they would not notice, but if I had the time I would consider printing again- but then again, is it ever possible to recreate?
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