My first attempt at a 4-color photo-intaglio, “Snow Shadows,” had technical problems with the black plate last year. So I improvised and made it a 2-color plate with red and black(using the cyan plate for the black ink). This year, I re-visited the image and exposed another black plate to reprinted the image again, now as a 4-color image. The result is a richer print, with warm yellows in the reflected light, and cooler shadows in the foreground.
24×18 Photo-Intaglio print of a manipulated photo that I took in winter of 2015 in Central Park.
I was trying to capture the twisted textures of the trees, contrasting the distant urban skyline, but the photo process filled in the trees as a flat black, and the emphasis is now on the dramatic sky contrasting the exciting weave of shadows on the walkway. As usual, printmaking doesn’t always do what I expect but I do like this image in the end.
I redid the plate, with an ochre/sienna ink, and layered it with a second plate, created from a different photo, after using the curves tool in photoshop to isolate the blacks. I also gave the 2nd plate a longer exposure to be sure the details in the black would print. This new image captures the sky and light areas of the photo with the first yellow plate, and the rich textures are captured on the black plate.
I plan to experiment further with this image in the spring of 2016
12″ x 9″ drypoint in copper plate of Barcelona’s famous walk on “La Rambla” late at night.
I was experimenting in the summer of 2014, with new printmaking mediums that were non-toxic. After drawing with Carandash watercolor crayons on the screen, the screen printing transparent ink base is squeegeed over the drawing, printing it onto the paper.
11″x14″ 2-plate intaglio etching, from a plastic plate, using photo-sensitive emulsion to transfer the two painting/drawings of ink and tusche on vellum.
In other words, I painted and drew the marks onto frosted translucent vellum, with a carbon-ink solution. The drawings were then exposed to photo-sensitive emulsion-covered plastic plate. The plates were then developed in a soda ash bath, and then inked and printed on top of each other on paper.
Side entrance to our first house on Holmes Oval. 9’x12″ Linoleum Block print on paper. 2014
Intended to be the sister print to the Back Walkway to our next home.
11×17 3-color reduction woodcut on rice paper, edition of five
11×17 woodcut 2-color reduction print of Steve 2014
12 x 17 woodcut in October 2013
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