Mono printing week 3

This week was working on different ways to directly use the stencil on the geli plate or use the print to finish off applying a direct stencil to an almost finished print.  I have an idea on one I want to finish off but for this posting of my blog I will just upload an exercise we did putting down black ink first on the plate, then applying the stencil.  Then using several picks ups of the black ink to remove it from the plate to leave a clean background.  This gives you several different values of a shaped image.  I then applied ink with the brayer carefully over the applied stencils. In this case, it was just local grasses but I was happy with the effect.  So i did a few to make a series of similar prints.  I personally think they all need another layer of something else to go over the grasses, but was happy with the look.  What do you think?