If you are just starting out, a student or don't have the room for a nice press, printing intaglio work can be quite a challenge. I wanted to share a technique of pressless printing that I learned a long time ago from my friend, Margaret Craig, who teaches at the Southwest School or Arts in TX. What you need are the normal things you would to print your plate + weights, transparent etching ink base and Golden Medium's Targel clear acrylic medium. Here are some images of my quick setup at…

First block print in years. Hand burnished in two editions - 6 on BFK Rives (seen here) and 16 on some toned drawing paper.

And finally, here is a sampling of the collographs that came out of the 2nd half of the printmaking class. Above is an acrylic plate with a design made out of beeswax and then inked with Akua waterbased inks. Making the collograph plate. Inking it carefully by hand. And finally, printing the plate on an etching press. The first print is fairly dark with ink. Then we roll up with Release Agent and pull a ghost print. Here is our palette of colors. Wild! And a sampling of prints. As I was busy…

In this post I'll share my collagraph, or collograph as it also can be spelled, printmaking process with you. I'm fascinated by the unpredictability of collagraph printing…

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Printmaking can be messy and take up a lot of space, but with a little planning, you can easily print at home. Read our tips for home printmaking studio organisation.

In this post I will explain the basic steps of making linocuts at home without a press. I love the craft of linoleum printing and I hope you will tempted to try it as well.

Using Different Tools to Make Marks on Lino – Handprinted

Way back in February (…that’s seems an age away) I ran an amazing two day workshop and as it relates to the online workshops I’m running over the next two weeks I thought I would …

Pronto Plate Lithography Part 1: Imaging the Plate

PVC ETCHING RESULTS This is a little example of my award winning drypoint etchings that I've been creating since 2006. Its a unique process in Printmaking utilising dry point etching techniques with a PVC board as my template. The level of detail is similar to mono printing, but the end result is often cleaner and crisper, and the plate tone allows for some exciting colour combinations. Different etchings of mine have been sourced and licensed by Rockflowerpaper and Biopac. You can purchase…

Pronto Plate Lithography Part 3: Clean Up

Hand lever press for all types of block printing. Works great with Lino and Soft Cut. Available in two sizes: 30cm x 21cm (a little larger than A4) or 31cm square Weighs 7kg approx.

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Toyin Ojih Odutola, Sidney Amaral | Minotaure (2012) | Artsy

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