i recently attended a linocutting workshop and absolutely i fell in love with it. i picked up some supplies and got to work on trying to make some prints out of the design i made at the workshop… but once i started, i kept running into the same problem — my design has tiny details that it really depends on, and the paint kept going into the little ridges, leaving my print a muddled mess!!

3 things i’m wondering are the cause: 1. i noticed the roller is a little warped, so it’s not totally flush 2. the paint also kept bunching up on parts of the roller 3. i’m using a basic glass pane for rolling the paint?

should i get a new roller — if so, which one? or use different paint? i know this is total rookie stuff, thank you for bearing with me!!