Filed under: printmaking | Tags: art, Ink, lithography, printmaking, pronto print, regent theater, visual art, Wood block, Woodcut
So, I’ve decided to try again with the woodcut and the pronto plate print. I have sealed the carved wood block, and it did print much easier. I also bought some Japanese papers, which are strong yet absorptive. I tried out some other colors, and also experimented with the layering of the image.
This one above was on a very nice paper, called sekishu. Kind of pricey…but light in color and very fine. I also printed this on another paper, called kitakata, which is slightly thicker and a warm, straw color:
Does it look different? It would be obvious if you were here! Here is red color scheme with one color rotated 180 degrees:
Hmmm… and here is the other color scheme:
and rotated:
What do you think? I’m sort of thinking that the black geometric object should have been a different color for the prints. I’m not thrilled with how these turned out. Any suggestions? I think that the colors turned out a bit icky.
I tried the pronto print again. Here it is:
I can’t compare it to the first one, as it’s going to be in that local art show. This is blurry, so I must have misaligned one of the colors by a hair. SO frustrating. I think that the ink application went better this time…so perhaps practice makes perfect.
I stopped by the Arlington Center for the Arts to drop off that previous pronto print. I was lucky to get a sneak preview of the show. Not big…but nice to see all the work of local artists. The education director was there, and thought that I should take my Regent prints to the owner to see if he would want to buy one. Hmm! Worth a thought. There is all sorts of protocol on selling art that is being shown somewhere else. Also, you may not be aware…but galleries take a hefty percentage of the sale. So, once you factor in the cost of paying the gallery, the frame cost, the materials cost, the labor cost…you can see why art is expensive, and hard to make a good profit from. I know…having an Etsy account would likely help!
By the way…the art show opens on March 28 in the Gibbs Gallery at the ACA, for you locals to Arlington. The reception is Thursday, April 7 from 6-9 pm. Come see! (I will hopefully be there on the later side, as I have a class that night.)
Filed under: printmaking | Tags: art, artist, Ink, lithography, print, printmaking, pronto print
So, I printed a pronto print this evening. This is a type of lithography, where one uses a polyester sheet as a plate. Then, an image is put on the plate, either by laser printer/copier, or by hand. THEN, when this plate is wet with a solution of gum arabic and water… the oil based ink sticks only where the marks are. Confused yet? It’s very finicky. It takes some serious practice. It would also work a million times better if I had a press, but no luck. I had to hand burnish, which adds to the “wonky” character of the print. On a similar theme to my linocuts, this is an image of the local Regent Theater.
I know. You’re wondering why the colors are all bizarre. Well…the ink is happiest on clean, high contrast images. When you have some subtlety…then things get dicey. I printed each process color separately…CMYK. So, this is an attempt. I will try again another time…but it took around two hours to print this thing…just one print. SIGH. I kind of like it, though.
It actually snowed today. I know. Horrors. Big, fat snowflakes covered the yard…probably only 1/2″ or so. Still, it was distressing. I really thought that we were done with that for the season. It has been known to snow in April though…
slightly wonky 