Re: Anyone seen any interesting work lately?

Enquiry

Does anyone know if you can get Solarplate in the UK or Anywhere else in
Europe for that matter? I was looking at the solarplate.com website and
thought that it could be useful in my work.

Alexis

on 1/12/01 8:32 am, AUCTION FUN at FONTPRO@USA.NET wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Or buy the book "Printmaking in the Sun." Buy a photopolymer plate.
> Expose your positive with an aquatint screen (80 or 90%) on the plate in
> the sun or under UV light. Develop under running water with a brush. Give
> it a final exposure to set the plate, And Intaglio print. Safe, Fast and
> relatively inexpensive. The author has a web site solarplate.com and
> explains the process an materials.
>
> I'd do some now, but I don't have access to a press. But what I've seen
> have been EXCELLENT!!!
>
> Mac
>
> .>How 'bout we wait until after the reception?
>>
>> How 'bout you take my workshop next year? 8-)
>>
>> I'm not sure what you're asking, anyway. It's one of the standard
>> variants: full-size positive on lith film, contact printed to potassium
>> dichromate-sensitized paper-backed gelatin, affixed to a copper plate,
>> aquatinted with resin, etched in a series of ferric chloride baths,
>> steel-faced, and then printed onto damp paper using an etching press.
>>
>> I am trying to document the whole process in text and images for a
>> website, but it's slow going. Good news is that I've tracked down two
>> more of the cornerstone books on the subject and they should be arriving
>> in the next week.
>>
>> There are other variants where asphaltum is used in place of resin,
>> or where a halftone or mezzotint screen is used, but I'm not doing it
>> that way.
>>
>> --Eric
>
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Received on Thu Dec 6 16:16:37 2001