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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Tag: tone
Explore design with aluminium tape
its not just about technique and special effects; the role of design is to help organise all this material, bringing it together in a coherent way, and enabling you to express and share your ideas in a print.
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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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Printing carborundum plates in relief and intaglio
Sometimes it is good to go back to basics to unpick just how different platemaking materials interact and behave when you ink them, so whether you are an old hand with carborundum printing or it is a new area for you I hope this will give you food for thought and something to experiment with.
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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.
Mix a tonal colour palette
This post will help you develop your own tonal colour palette for more subtle colour schemes with just a couple of inks
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