Things are ticking over slowly. I’ve made a plate from
the drawing of the fools in a cage
and printed it.
I struggled with the mountboard that I used for the plate.
It was stuff I got in a hurry at the beginning of lockdown, not my usual sort
and it needed peeling much deeper to get to the rough internal core I need for
the darks. This made a step on the plate that was a bit too much for my small
press at home to deal with, leaving some white haloing in parts. I may try on
the big press at Hot Bed when we can return.
The chair of our book art group is currently making a video
for BABE about our group project “An inch a day” and the difficulties of making
a group project (which will be about 90 feet long) when we cannot meet up to
work together.
This spurred me to trying to make some relevant images for
it. As a warm up up I tried monoprint.
Trace monoprints
Stencils
And dark field monoprints.
All tacked onto a sample of the book base fabric.
All made using an X cut (die cutting Machine). I was amazed how well they worked
and this will be a much simpler and quicker process than the collagraph plates I
had envisaged making.(Does anyone know why new blogger keeps randomly altering my typeface?)
