Using mica for printmaking
It is a well known fact that we humans love shiny things. Mica has provided us with glitz since...
Read MorePosted by Emily | Metallics, Techniques
It is a well known fact that we humans love shiny things. Mica has provided us with glitz since...
Read MorePosted by Emily Harvey | Experiments, Materials
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.
Read MorePosted by Emily | Collagraphs, Inks, Techniques
White ink has an interesting effect on your collagraph prints
It is hard to say exactly what has happened, but there is a distinct and positive improvement in the print, a bit like the way someone looks when they come back from holiday. Your print has more substance, more energy, and more clarity.
I think my first question ‘why clean up?’ is the wrong one to be asking. Cleaning up is an integral part of the printmaking process and one we should embrace in the manner of the Zen monks. It clears your mind after a printmaking session, providing a pause to your rhythm of work. If you spend time developing a cleaning up routine that suits you, the ritual soon becomes part of your creative practice.
A meditative cleaning up process helps you to love your tools and care for your studio space, leaving it ready to begin your next bout of creative activity.
Posted by Emily Harvey | Chine collee, Materials
Chine collee is an exciting and versatile technique for adding extra layers of colour, text and...
Read MorePosted by Emily Harvey | Chine collee, Materials
UPDATE! April 2023 I have found a new “best glue for chine collee”, suggested by a...
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