The final plate has 88g of deposited copper. It will require levelling off on the underside with fibre glass filler or a low temperature metal such as pewter. Three possibilities for inking up stand out, either viscosity printing, Andrew Baldwin’s double drop technique, or as a collagraph ‘a la poupee’ .
Over the last twelve hours a total of 37g has been deposited on the mandrel. The pure copper has a magical colour and to my eye it is an object of beauty in itself. I have used the stereotype process in the past to copy etching plates, this is the first time I have used …
The Cill Rialaig Project was set up by publisher Noelle Campbell-Sharpe, as an artist retreat on the Bolus Head peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. The images in this slideshow reflect the time I spent at Cill Rialaig with fellow artists from Lecheile an Irish-Welsh collaborative project – Communication through printmaking.
Stop motion video describing art therapy
I’m really not sure where this is going but it feels like an idea worth exploring. Making work whilst I was doing my M.A. was something that had to be done. There was an external pressure. My intention is to set my self the task of doing a weekly blog to reproduce the institutional pressure …