Herbarium · Field Press · Edition 05 · Coastal botanic route

Field book

A working travel sketchbook, printed in five riso separations. Scroll to pull each ink pass — coral, aqua, sunflower, leaf — until the specimen registers.

Five inks · no gradients · pressed on cream

leaf edge
salt burn 20%

Pass 01 — Coral

The first plate is a squeegee of coral, laid loose over the indigo key line.

The key line prints first and never moves. Every colour after it is a separate pull — wet ink dragged across the sheet a few millimetres out of true.

Ink Coral 021 Offset +6.2mm Coverage 54%

Pass 02–03 — Aqua + Leaf

Where two inks overprint, a third colour is born on the paper.

Aqua arrives out of register and multiplies into coral; leaf follows. No gradient is drawn — the intersections are printed, wet ink over wet ink. Drag the plate to feel it slip.

Coral Aqua Leaf Sunflower

Specimen canvas — tide path Plate 3 · five-ink separation · Ulva & sea-fir

Pass 05 — Registration

Register

Plates converging…

All five inks pull into true. The crosses lock, the offset falls to zero, and the specimen prints whole.

PROOF · 05/40 · registered

The proof

Pull the print. Bind the fieldbook.

Edition: Coastal botanic route, no. 05 of 40
Separations: Coral · Aqua · Sunflower · Leaf · Indigo
Stock: Cream laid, 148gsm, deckle edge
Registration: Locked · 0.0mm drift

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