The fourth color, ochre, will serve as the darker tone for the background of the chicken and the horse. This is actually the color combo that spurred my imagination to design the tone-on-tone look of the squares.
The next color is sky blue. This blue will be featured in three squares, and all three will require a great deal of precision cutting. With reduction printing, the previous color always affects the following color, and I do what I can to minimize the effect. In this case, covering the ocre with blue is very tricky. Ochre is, essentially, a green. As such, the yellow in ochre wants to cancel the blue, and the green wants to cancel the red values in the blue, rendering it gray. The best way to minimize the effect is to add purple to the blue. However, there is only so much one can do, because the ink layers need to be thin, and the color needs to be light. I think I got good balance, and I am quite happy with the result.
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