#stone litho

It took like forever but I’m pretty happy with the results. Not bad for a first try!

by prairiecryptid

in my puter - stone lithograph - february 2023

Remember a while ago, when I posting all these links to videos of me working on Ernst Hanke’s Steindruck Schnellpresse? And the Kickstarter thing I did to move what is now Patrick Wagner’s Schnellpresse to Småland? All that feels like some far away dream, but it actually happened, and the video in this post is proof (that, and the 7.5ton press that is now standing in my barn). It’s sadly a bit hectic, lots of high-speed people running around the press, as it slowly grows into the beast that it is when fully assembled. With Beethoven’s 9th, the popular segment, because everything is better with Beethoven’s 9th. The man in the Elmo Cosplay is Willy Etter, he’s the Intergalactic Press Healer that made the entire assembly possible. Imagine that there’s people out there that know 114 year old machines by heart, bolt by bolt. Absolutely amazing. And finally, as the tumblr we know and loves mutilates itself into yet another bowdlerized platform on the 17th, and while BHP isn’t a NSFW blog, I want to let all the weird and kinky tumblrs out there know how much I admire and miss them. Such a large part of our lives now happen digitally, on some platform or another, and most of them have strict rules about what content (parts of yourself) you get to show / share with others. When chosing tumblr as the new home for BHP after Blogspot, it was the weird/kinky/whatever side of tumblr that made me want to be here, where it felt people could be talented artists or avid fans of this or that, but also queer, horny or just plain weird, all in one fantastic mix.

Slow head, slow hands, slow heart. Beijing printing snippet. BHP has used up all social energy, but so many days left. Surprised by so many things here. If it weren't for the bad air and terrible terrible internet (apparently the latter can be remedied, with enough $, for the former there's masks, nothing new for the printmaking population), could totally see a new BHP base somewhere in China. Aaaaanyway, what's the point. Here's 10sec, June Wayne speaks about the sounds of litho, gotta do some filtering and selective hearing, but they're in this video too. There's treasure everywhere.

fun fact! if, due to a pandemic, you have to leave a tusche wash on a stone for seven months, it is a much more forgiving etch but it takes 20+ minutes to remove with the lithotine

- 40x54cm (e/a) - 2016