Stop-out varnish for lino etching
If you are familiar with traditional lino prints you may like to extend your pritnmaking by...
Read MorePosted by Emily Harvey | Lino Etching, Materials, Techniques
If you are familiar with traditional lino prints you may like to extend your pritnmaking by...
Read MorePosted by Emily Harvey | Embossing, Equipment
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!
Read MorePosted by Emily Harvey | Collagraphs, Experiments, Techniques
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 | Collagraphs, Techniques
A different approach to fabric printing
Traditional fabric printing is usually a relief process (think potato prints or block prints) or else it is screen printed. For collagraphs we will be using intaglio and relief methods combined to produce complex detailed and textured prints.
Posted 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 | 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.
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