Preparing found materials for intaglio printing
“How could I print from that?”Was the question I asked myself when I found this...
Read MorePosted by Emily Harvey | Experiments, Found materials
“How could I print from that?”Was the question I asked myself when I found this...
Read MorePosted by Emily Harvey | Experiments, Found materials, Nature
Look for a place where spiders like to make webs. This should be in the open, and somewhere where you can reach the web from both sides. This could be between the legs of a table, or along a fence; they like to use the uprights and cross pieces to anchor the web.
Read MorePosted by Emily Harvey | 3D, artists prints, Experiments
Here is a collection of mobiles with poems and prints. The idea is to let moving air currents...
Read MorePosted by Emily Harvey | 3D, Creative process, Experiments
Why trap your prints behind glass? Are they desiccated museum exhibits forever fixed in time?
‘A print that moves’ is part of my investigation into making prints that live outside the frame.
In this post I want to share some of my current work with you
Posted by Emily Harvey | Collagraph, Experiments, Melting and burning
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.
Read MorePosted by Emily Harvey | Casting and moulding, Experiments, Found 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.
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