Today I used ALL the presses

Nov 11, 2006 00:01

A day off, in which to...go to school anyway. Sigh ( Read more... )

printmaking, fractals, typefettinge

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OOOH. chronographia November 11 2006, 08:09:00 UTC
Photo-etched plates? SPILL. We had to make do with xerox transfers and some mystical treatment with gum arabic and straw hat.

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Re: OOOH. anti_cyclone November 11 2006, 08:20:27 UTC
Straw hat?

All I know about it right now is that it's a mysterious cobalt-blue film which is applied to the copper plates. I've seen plates around the studio with the stuff on them, and with definite photo halftoning. I'll know more on Monday.

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Re: OOOH. chronographia November 11 2006, 08:28:58 UTC
Interesting . . . the cobalt-blue film sounds a bit like the kind we used in silkscreening, and it's probably photosensitive or something of the sort. I'm all curious now.

If you can, would you ask about straw hat? I never did get the time to write down the method, and the person I've learned it from has a habit of systematically destroying his braincells. Sigh.

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