I prepped some plates for a demo on indirect drawing,or the "Paul Klee technique" as my boss calls it, but I over inked them, so they never dried to the right consistency. I put them outside for a couple of hours, hoping that the sun would speed up the drying a little but instead the wind deposited a large amount of debris on the surface of the ink. Rather than waste them, I quickly cut out a silhouette, placed it at the bottom of the plate, and ran a print from it.
I like it so much, that I salvaged one of the sheets that someone else threw away from the garbage, soaked it, and ran the ghost on it. The sheet had been crumpled and had a layer of wheatpaste one it already from the previous failed print, imparting an interesting texture to the final image.
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I love these...
Hello there mee old Flickr buddy Camilla !!
I 've landed on your blog like some kind of deranged house fly. I am enjoying looking though what you have been getting up to. It's good to see you getting around and doing lots of demos and making lots of contacts and what not.
I liked very much the idea of cutting out the relief prints and then selectively monotype inking them.
Did you mean that you had cut out the shapes like from a piece of lino and then selectively wiped them?.
I suppose I could just cut a piece of acetate and get similar results. Maybe I am missing something here. Please drop me a line if you have the time to explain........... aine@ainescannell.com.
I have been doing water based reticulated marks onto sturdy acetate which I then put a stencil over and run through the press. I use speedball water based block print ink - its the only one I can afford so I hope its reasonably OK... in terms of longevity.
Of course first I prep the acetate using gum arabic and let it overnight dry. Then I do the mark making - with this one I also added liquid water colour that has a dropper bottle too. I drop isopropyl alcohol onto it as its nearly dry and thats how i get the reticulation happening ( like watercolor paints bleeding into one another)
- I also let that dry overnight.
oh and when you put it through the press onto damp blotted paper (not too blotted though) I let it sit under the blankets for 3 minutes BEFORE - I roll it through the press,
The one I am doing at the moment started turning into a rather complicated monoprint with lino intaglio and inkjet transfer and chine colle .........this is about the 3rd week now but they are nearly finished ........................
take care of yourself
Aine
I cut out the silhouette from paper. Wax paper works best, or that paper that printmaking paper comes wrapped in is what I typically use. I've found that acetate is too tall and leaves a halo effect around the shape.
That's a really cool idea about getting the waterbased medium to reticulate, dry, then print it. I've tried to get similar results using solvents on oil based ink on a plexiglas, but of course water based reticulationw ould look totally different.
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