Artwork in the Pipeline
- L'Atelier11
- 3 days ago
- 1 min read
Iain and Lindsey offer a taste of their ideas and prints yet to come!
Printmaking using traditional methods can be a very time consuming, slow process.
First a plate to print from is created; a hugely enjoyable part of a printmaker’s life.
Iain’s Collagraph and Linocut will be printed on top of each other with Chine Colle (applying acid free tissue when printing the plate to add colour and interest).
Lindsey’s Linocut and Collagraph plates, both inspired by her travels in Japan.
For more information on printmaking processes, read more here.
Once completed, the plate will be inked up ready for printing.
This is a Dry point plate made by Lindsey inspired by going to Epernay in France.
She inks up using old toothbrushes. The ink will then be pushed into the plate engravings using scrim and finally the ink is polished off using tissue paper on the areas not engraved ready for running through the press.
Once a test plate has been printed onto paper the plate is often tweaked.
After printing the plate may be hand tinted or gilded.
And now for the final results:
