no time like now

It was a rainy walk out to the honeycomb this morning but a good, productive day. After mixing the ink I ran one print

Hmmm....too dark. I removed half the ink and mixed in a big scoop of base extener to lighten it up a bit. And voila! Perhaps a little more blue than I wanted but I'm running out of time to be picky so here it is:

Now I'll carve a bit more tonight and print the black plate tomorrow evening. I've got my fingers crossed that everything goes as planned since I'm running right up against my deadline. Thank god for overnight postal service!