Print making: lithography 

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I searched looking for the technical process so I was totally annoyed listening to her go on about her feelings as an artist. Esp. because what she does really looks like cr@p to me.

Thanks. This helped me a lot!

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Live below your means

No they're not

almost like you're defending her for being bad at it🤔 could you be her?

Clayton Neff where does it say ‘how’ in the title?

@@tripleaaa4409it looks like they changed the title at some point

That would be xylography. Close though, as they were both invented fairly close together.

How were you doing it? In my home the process is kind of different, but maybe this will help if you want to try: Sand the stone with sand and the big round tool for that (we called it "graneador" but I don't think is it correct name), after that, use sand paper of 220 grain in small circular moves to open the pore in the stone. Put vinegar for 3 minutes (it has to have between 4% and 6% acidity) and apply it with circular moves. Let it dry and don't touch the stone with your skin. Draw with the crayon or the litho crayon, don't touch the stone, try to use a small wood table to leverage your hand and avoid touch the stone. The stone need to rest an entire day, 24 hours. After the rest, we use vegetable resin powder in the draw, and after that, talcum power in all the stone. We applied with a big brush and remove the rests in different boxes. Prepare the mordants: In our case we use arabic glue (or gum arabic idk how it is spelled in English) is glue for litho purposes, maybe can be found that way. We mixed it with lemon, I think people of the north use some kind of acid, we use lemon, lima or limón mandarina, I don't really try with the yellow ones from the north so don't know if it works. It has to be a fresh one. The mordants in my case are 1 ounce or arabic glue and 6, 9 and 23 drops of lemon juice for 3 different mordants. You start applying it with a brush, and start with the one with the lowest lemon drops, putting it in the whitest zones, and then to the last one that is the blackest: This has to be done it in 5 minutes (chronometer), and when you reach the last one need to be applied to all the stone. After that 5 minutes, remove the excess of mordant with a cloth towel, the thin one for kitchen are good for that: You need to leave a thin layer or glue, don't remove too much but don't leave too much. Let it rest 30 minutes. Apply thinner with a soft cloth, don't rub too hard or everything will fail. Apply tar, remove with a cloth and let it dry a little, not too much. After, use two cellulose sponges, put water with a clean one from above, one that will not touch the tar, and with a dirty one remove the tar from the stone, I use two small plastic recipients, one for clean water and other for dirty one. Once the stone is clean don't let it dry, start putting ink (the ink need a little bit of talcum power, not oil, and obviously need to be oil based ink), never letting it dry, try to put water with the clean sponge directly in the stone a never let it dry. Keep inking the stone. Once fully inked, more resin and talcum power, repeat the mordants and let it rest 30 minutes, more thinner and more tar, and now the inking is for printing: Ink the stone and only fully inked the draw you dry the stone with a manual fan. Put grease to the press, your paper in the stone, some paper to protect your print, an acrylic, calibrate the press and move the press. With all that, you have a litho-stone print :D

So you can see all the stuff the Brits stole and won't give back?

actually the first printing process was block printing. it was created in China and spread to Europe where Guttenburg developed the moveble type to print his bible.

Sounds like sensitivity or something

Bla bla bla bla If you don't get it why comment it? You look ignorant and stupid

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All those words just to say nothing.

what.

@@porcupinesauce3872 ?.. Meaning?..

You grind it with wet carborundum and another stone on top. Then can reuse the stone hundreds of times.

​@@ccppttbbobb7484 Oh cool. thanks for the explanation. I think carborundum or SIC is also being used in scratching processes and it makes some kind of shading patterns in printing am I right? it scratches the inked surface and makes a white shading pattern.

You sound like a hater lol, totally the definition of a debbie downer.

Those are all good questions

She is a student dude. She probs didn't get paid for this and her schedule is packed. She was trying to show it in the most quick and simple terms. Why tf does everyone expect a million percent from people for free? Go make something.

​@@void.lawyeryeah, people expect to be entertained all the time and for free 😂

@@void.lawyershe could have literally done anything, like a cat drawing. Her decision to produce something that makes lithography look horribly limited and/or prone to disastrous results isn’t helpful to anyone wanting to learn about this art. If she’s too stretched for time to put in even the most minuscule effort on producing a quality result, then just don’t bother.

No one has to check with you to get your approval what to print.

@valerian8 your comment isn't helpful to anyone. You think this is all she does? It's a shirt clip. Get over yourself. What she decided to do is none of your business.

Why no plates with the typewriting poems

Probably, to make the engraving on it later on...

Do you mean the lithostone? The object for which the artform is named? Litho literally means stone.

Kids are more creative than most adults :)

Imagine both not understanding art is subjective AND dismissing creativity of children. Gotta love when the art snobs crawl out of the sewers on every video.