Here is the story of creating the ‘Midwinter Solstice’ print, I thought it was a good example as I started with no plan, just a spark of an experiment, and through allowing the creative process to unfold a new print was born!
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Vinyl records are great ready made printing plates; thin and flat they’ll go through a printing press under pressure.
The variety of smooth and ridged areas on the surface hold ink in different ways, and you often get lettering in the mix as well.
Melt Tyvek to make unusual textured printing plates
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Once you have eaten enough crisps and drunk plenty of coffee you should have what you need to experiment with metallised foil printing plates.
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Blind embossing involves pressing deep textures into paper, creating subtle and dynamic images that change with the angle of light and the position of the viewer.
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Create organic crackled textures by making collagraph plates with eggshells.
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