Stop-out varnish for lino etching
If you are familiar with traditional lino prints you may like to extend your pritnmaking by...
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Tag: plate making
Burning collagraph plates
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.
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Cast Latex Printing Plates
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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Embossed plates from PVC foamboard
PVC foamboard is a really intersting material for printmakers. In this post I will take you through some different ways of using it for embossing.
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PVC foamboard printing plates
Sometimes you discover a new material, or a new use for an old material and it just gets your...
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The Story of a Print; Midwinter Solstice
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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