I’ve been working through photolitho this week making sure
that I can replicate the process from the workshop and end up with a print.
I started with a drawing...
Scanned it and played with it to make two different images
to be put onto acetate.
I exposed these onto photolitho plate and printed.
I wondered what would happen if I overprinted the lighter
image in a pale ink over the denser one.
I like the effect even if the registration isn’t
great (somehow I managed to alter the aspect ratio of one of the two images as
I was playing with them).
I want to use this technique now to make prints using several
plates and colours and to incorporate text into the image.
I’ve
also started the design of a new collagraph. I came across the legend of
Rosamund the Fair. She was the mistress of Henry II. It was said that she lived
in the centre of a maze where Henry could visit her in safety. Eleanor of
Aquitaine (Henry’s wife) managed to penetrate the maze and gave her the option
of choosing between a dagger and a bowl of poison; Rosamund chose the latter
and died. This version of her death only surfaced two hundred years later and is
historically inaccurate but I like the visual possibilities.
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