Silk Aquatint Printing up close
Silk Aquatint printing up close In this post I am taking the idea of silk aquatint as a starting...
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Category: Techniques
Preparing found materials for intaglio printing
“How could I print from that?”Was the question I asked myself when I found this...
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Inking collagraphs to enhance textures
in this post I am taking you through an experiment I did to ink the plates and make the textures look even more 3d.
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Tar Gel for collagraph plates
Tar gel is fantastic stuff to add to collagraph plates, it will help you create lively dynamic effects, and is really fun to use as welI.I assumed that everybody knew about Tar Gel, but recently when…
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Lens paper for printmaking
This fine gossamer tissue has three excellent qualities for printmakers; it is very thin, very strong, and not expensive. In this post I want to introduce you to some of its potential for printmaking.
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Design a two-plate collagraph print
Sometimes it’s not practical to fit everything onto one printing plate!
I am going to explain why I decided to use two plates for this collagraph print and how I worked out the process of designing and constructing the printing plates.
