Stop-out varnish for lino etching
If you are familiar with traditional lino prints you may like to extend your pritnmaking by...
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Author: Emily Harvey
Blind embossed stamps and chop marks
It is not just the print studios who have their own embossed stamps, individual artists do too. If its good enough for Picassso its good enough for us curious printmakers as well!
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Burning collagraph plates
Burning collagraph plates introduces exciting random and organic methods to your platemaking. I love this technique as you give up a certain amount of control and allow your materials to guide your creative process.
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Cast Latex Printing Plates
This is the best thing I have found so far for taking impressions of textures from 3d objects and then printing them directly. Latex picks up precise fine details, moulds round contoured shapes and stretches out flat. The thin rubber plate takes intaglio and relief ink and you can print it with or without a press.
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Mono printing on plaster
Mono printing on plaster is an exciting and magical process for all ages, and with some help even very young children can make lovely prints using this method. You can create prints like tiles that will stand up on their own, or can easily be hung on the wall. With the bright clear colours and detailed patterns, people will wonder how you made these unique tiles.
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Printmaking rollers from old toner cartridges
If you do get your hands on redundant toner cartridges it is definitely worth extracting the rollers; their unusual shape may bring a new element to your printmaking.
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