Nov 11, 2022
fields of gold or whatever sting said
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fields of gold or whatever sting said
Stop-out is pretty tasty looking.
I’ve gotten easily confused in this whole process, I’m thankful to have the classmates I do. Mike, Caroline, Brooke - you probably will never see this, but thank you for making me laugh and keeping me sane.
Anyhow, it can be a therapeutic process. It’s just understanding the chemistry behind it. The first plate shown is NOT what I wanted, luckily acetone easily removes it. The second is my desired outcome. Just spray paint the back and front and now it’s time for the chemical bath 🛁☠️.
just a bit of mistakes, eh? can you point them out? just make sure you use the same font …
Thank you Mike for letting me play teacher even though I screwed us over
Assignment:
learn about our wonderful type studio with Oscar!
collectively we chose a song (No Wind Resistance! by Kinneret). each student got a lyric starting from the beginning. we got to explore a whole range of fonts and sizes (36-96 size) of lead letters, some chose wood which was pretty neat.
the biggest struggle was making sure you use the same font, otherwise you’ll need to work around the spacers or, like Mike and I, have start all over again (totally my fault). once we got it all on the press, with this beautiful range of purple, we were good to go. sike, we were not. how we had our letters face the wrong way so much i dont even know, but with patience we got some cool prints.
some students took it upon themselves to make other type prints. it was just a lovely collaborative time and id like to say we learned a lot.
I’m very bitter about putting aquatint on and I just want to relief print
The process has begun
Not pictured is the many tedious steps it takes to get to the final printing stage. Filing the sides of the copper, laying ground, waiting forever for the ground to dry, transferring the drawing, etching, spray painting the back, chemical bath, water, soysolv, water again, cutting out 20 pages of 9x7 newsprint, and now… to print.
The moment I’ve been waiting for all semester ✨
mmm shiny