#printmaking report

GUYYSSSS IM SO THRILLED

been working on this drypoint etching and i’m soooo thrilled with it ^-^

i may go back and etch deeper in some spots and ofc print a lot more but i’m really really pleased

for those maybe unfamiliar drypoint etching is when you scratch into a plate of plexiglass and rub ink into the scores, wiping it in (and off of where there’s no mark to hold onto.) it’s like copper etching, but there’s no acid to control intensity, and everything is reliant solely on crosshatching hehehejeje.

YAYYYYYYY!!!!!! this was my final proof to figure out what i need to do for the final edition.

night two of class and we figured out the ink issue!! the answer is always more… more ink more pressure! drew sylvia but forgot about printing backwards….. degree be damned i will always fuck that up.

drawing wip vs newsprint proof vs final :*>

reduction lino prints!! i had my students start this last week, but i knocked mine out pretty quickly in just the one class, which i’m pleased with.

here it is with three and two layers :3 idk which one i like better. the idea with reduction printmaking is you carve what you want to stay white first, and then print…

then you carve away what you want to stay that first color, then print again! you can see we kind of had some major registration issues lol.

by the end of the print run, the block only has the last layer on it. we called them suicide blocks in college bc they off themselves.

haiiii my first day of being lead teacher!! we did cmyk color layering lino cut stuff. one of my fave projects i did in undergrad..

here are mineeeeee the explosion block and obv the sacred heart were mine, and then the other blocks came from my students. the point is to mix n match with everyone else to make something totally different.

night one of printmaking class.. i don’t teach until march but i’m there to have fun and help and make art and learn :3 we did pronto plate litho which i’d never done before!

this is the drawing… and then the prints themselves didn’t really turn out for a few reasons! number one is there wasn’t enough ink and it wasn’t modified to be greasy enough… issue #2 which we learned after the second print is that sharpie works… sometimes. but litho crayon is much more reliable. HOWEVER! you can’t get the same tonal variation as you can with stone litho, i presume bc of the lack of acid.