And one I
don’t possess in great quantity.
I did cut
and fold the risograph print to make a zine. Although this particular piece is
rather garish, and there are mistakes in the separation/layering, as an
exercise in learning about the machine I think it was worth it and I would like
to investigate locating one that I can get access to push this further.
Now back to
patience. I have already posted the images of eight pieces of plate with a peel
n blue resist applied ready to produce two different four colour etchings. To save time I
decided it would be a good idea to bite them all at the same time and then do a
major printing session.
When I came
to print I realised that the plates weren’t properly degreased. The copper
sulphate had bitten into the exposed aluminium at random just giving deep spots
across the plate. Any detail I managed to get was coming from the resist which
I’d left on the plate (it’s really difficult to remove but does seem to print OK – usually!) but it
is so shallow that I cannot get any depth of colour from it.
The red
plate printed best and you can see some detail (and the red spots from the
deeper etch)
The two coloured version gives a vague idea of what I’m trying to do but it is too
pale and looses a lot of the detail. (The light I'm taking these photos in isn't helping either)
With eight ruined plates and no way to rescue them I think I’ll go back to gum arabic again for
this image.
