In this video I improve my viscosity technique by applying Akua ink thickening paste to make my ink even more sticky. I am also using a small roller to reapply the lighter ink to achieve more contrast. The cutout plate shows some beautiful embossing which is so unique to printmaking.
MATERIALS
Intaglio Printmaker Inks: Sepia, Indian Yellow, Madder Lake
Paper: Snowden 300g
Press: Polymetaal HS-35 Tabletop Etching Press
Wood glue: Pollyfilla
Enviroboard
Shellac: Jackson's Art one is awesome!
0:15 - Explaining Digital Process
2:13 - Introducing the new ingredient
3:27 - Transferring image onto the plate
3:52 - Cutting out the image
4:54 - Transferring dark areas
5:00 - Cutting out dark areas
6:23 - Transferring Yellow looser ink areas
6:48 - Marking raised areas for yellow ink with 50:50 mixture of wood glue and pollyfilla
7:31 - Smoothing out the raised areas with wood glue to make them less ink absorbent
7:45 - Inking up for intaglio with sepia
7:60 - Wiping sepia ink off
8:23 - Preparing looser yellow ink
8:36 - Rolling looser ink over the plate with hard roller
8:39 - Preparing sticky ink
8:50 - Rolling sticky ink with softer roller over the plate
9:00 - Some more ink touch ups
9:30 - The big reveal! (edited)
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The most unique printing process in the world is called Viscosity Printing and it was invented by Stanley William Hayter. The first time this new technique was used to print a book, it took three machines six months of continuous operation around-the-clock with ten printers working simultaneously. A dense black ink mixed with oil varnish on silk paper that gives smoothness or viscosity when printed onto other sheets at right angles creates these prints which are also known as "simultaneous colour printing."
3 июл 2021
