Category: Plating

  • Continuing work with Wayne Clark on Ceramics

     

  • Making an Electrotype of a Composited Letterpress Chase

    Collaborative project with Heather Prescott at the Wrexham Regional Print Centre. In the past the electrotype process was used to make metal copies of letterpress type.

  • Electrotyped Cast of a Workbench

    As part of the Wrexham Print Centres Harts heath Project I have made an electrotyped plate of a workbench that was estimated as being first used in the early nineteenth century. Unfortunately I was only able to take an impression from a small part of it before the bench was removed to a museum. The image on the left is the reverse of the plate which is still attached to the mould and on the right is the part of the bench from which the impression was taken from.

  • Copper & Corrosion

    Exploration in electro-forming as a sculptural process.

  • Electrotyped plates for series of prints Hartsheath Textures and Colours

    Inked up plates.

  • Frances Carlile’s Sculpture

    Picture from Frances of the second piece of hers that we plated on Friday 11th.

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  • Working with Frances Carlile

    Electro-forming some sculptures made by Frances Carlile from blackthorn branches.

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    Photograph shows one of Frances’s pieces ‘Breakwater’ standing on a piece of mine entitled ‘Tide’ Really fun creative day.

  • Electro-Etching Workshop June 2018

    Electro-etching with Andrew Baldwin and Don Braisby

    An integrated safer & less toxic approach to etching

    31 May & 1 June 2018
    10:00am-4:00pm

    This workshop will demonstrate the mark making potential of combining the use of electro-etching and the safer etching processes and techniques developed and taught by Andrew Baldwin. Electro-etching provides a safe, cost effective and creative replacement for acid etching and its alternatives. The combination of the safer etching techniques and electro-etching makes it possible to etch in an open studio and to teach etching in the classroom.

    This is a practical hands-on workshop

    Workshops aim:

    • Provide a simple introduction to the theory and practice of electro-etching and safer etching.
    • Introduce the equipment needed for electro-etching and plating, how to set it up and use it safely.
    • Creative plate making using safer methods and processes to; lay grounds, aquatint plates, spit bite and sugar lift.
    • Proofing and printing plates in two colours.
    • Introduced participants to electroforming and electrotyping as a potential process in printmaking, jewellery and sculpture.

    Objectives:

    • Participants will have gained a working knowledge of electro-etching and the use of safer etching processes and techniques to use in their print making practice.
    • Provide feedback for post-doctoral research.

    http://www.printmakingstudio.co.uk/

    https://donbraisby.com/

    Non-members £140.00/Members £90.00

    Booking essential (via email or telephone)

  • Stereotyped plate

    Stereotyped plate

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    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’ .

     

  • Close ups of copper stereotypes copies of chard wood.

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