mokulito test plate
Norma with red Bird
The latest work using plywood, the work printed up well, I used chine collie on some of the images, other will be hand coloured.
The plate was covered in gum for a long time, four weeks, with no ill effects.
Using the transfer blue paper, the image was first drawn from a a life model, photograph and reworked using computer software.
The image was then printed directly onto the blue litho transfer paper with a large format printer.
Then the image is placed on the plywood and run through the etching press, firm pressure to transfer the image to the plate
I could have worked on the blue paper with litho pencils and crayons and ink, then when finished simply transfer to the plate, coat with gum and leave for a few days, but I like to draw directly on the plywood as I enjoy the process, also love to cut out areas to produce pure white.
This time, when finished with the printing I rolled up in ink and recoated with gum only, idea being I can print up the image again, so we will see.
Test plate
Ok, after a few days I washed off the gum, and printed printed the plate for a second time, the plate printed exactly the same, no build up necessary and straight on to good rag paper. This is good if your printing is interrupted, you can simply re gum and maybe rework and print another day. However the work does lose some fine details and middle tones, but that happens during the first round of printing, i think if your are happy with the results, then thats great.
The latest work using plywood, the work printed up well, I used chine collie on some of the images, other will be hand coloured.
The plate was covered in gum for a long time, four weeks, with no ill effects.
Using the transfer blue paper, the image was first drawn from a a life model, photograph and reworked using computer software.
The image was then printed directly onto the blue litho transfer paper with a large format printer.
Then the image is placed on the plywood and run through the etching press, firm pressure to transfer the image to the plate
I could have worked on the blue paper with litho pencils and crayons and ink, then when finished simply transfer to the plate, coat with gum and leave for a few days, but I like to draw directly on the plywood as I enjoy the process, also love to cut out areas to produce pure white.
This time, when finished with the printing I rolled up in ink and recoated with gum only, idea being I can print up the image again, so we will see.
Test plate
Ok, after a few days I washed off the gum, and printed printed the plate for a second time, the plate printed exactly the same, no build up necessary and straight on to good rag paper. This is good if your printing is interrupted, you can simply re gum and maybe rework and print another day. However the work does lose some fine details and middle tones, but that happens during the first round of printing, i think if your are happy with the results, then thats great.
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