Solar
Printing :
This
is done on a polymer plate ( with a thin metal backing) which is Ultra
Violet light sensitive. The image can be made on transparent film &
then clamped to the plate while it is exposed to the sun or other ultra
violet light source. The advantage for my purpose was that by doing a
second exposure with a very fine dotted screen, a really strong all-over
tone can be obtained. This provided the necessary tonal gap between the
sky & the clouds.
Mono Printing :
This is a direct method, in which an impression is taken from a
source which has been covered in ink. In this case I used grasses &
leaves for the trees & bushes, & cut-out card for buildings. In
each case these were then impressed directly on to the finished solar
print of the sky. Chine
Colle :
A
piece of coloured paper is placed over part of the etching plate before
covering with the damped printing paper. When passed through the press,
the two papers fuse together & some of the image is printed on the
coloured part .In this case I painted the colours with acrylic on the cut
out butterflies & then the veins were added from the etching on the
plate as it went through the press. |
