Mt. Fuji Print: Hokusai's Print, Part 10

As a result, I am not with my print. So I did it again. Remember what is really nice about printing, is as long as you have the ink, you can print again and again and again, until you get that perfect print. That is why you will see artists who are printmakers have 50 editions, and only let's say the 25th edition was the best.

Printmaking can be extremely tedious and can be, given all the constricts of straight, centered, etc. and imagery quality, quite labor intensive as well as it can make an artist/printmaker quite a perfectionist as a result.

But, again, I was not happy with my result. So I added a bit of water to my ink that was on my paper plate and that seemed to make a difference. I also printed right away instead of waiting, as my battery on the video camera kept dying, so I waited before.

Now I just did it. And you want to just do it too. You don't want to wait too long. If you wait too long what happens is the ink dries and no matter how hard you rub that paper, the ink is already dried to some extent on your matrix and you won't "pull a good print", as they say.