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• Expanding monotype techniques with lift ground

  This is a stub of a post, to be fleshed out soon. Painting and drawing techniques, common in monotype, can be employed in intaglio prints through offset printing and lift ground technique. For more on the lift ground, see this post. Monotype offset Here we have energetic brushwork monoprinted from the slab, the ink from…

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  Intaglio Lift Grounds: A New Approach

  Printmaking is often about reversals – mirror images but also the light line that a scribe makes through a hard ground, eventually printing black. For many, myself included, this is a difficult bit of mental gymnastics. I sought a simpler way to get from drawing to print. While lift grounds may not exactly be simple,…

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  Pressure adjustment with voltage multimeter

  What you see in the image above is a setup for calibrating a press with or without micrometer gauges. The usual procedure for calibration is to zero out the gauges by taking the roller to the bedplate and then setting the micrometer barrel & thimble to zero. The problem is that the roller isn’t just…

• Gum Arabic

  Gum Arabic is a water soluble sap from the acacia tree. This is the binder for watercolor and gouache paints. We use it also in the fountain solution for polyester plate lithography. Here’s the recipe, thanks to Natural Pigments. 150 grams of gum arabic powder 500 ml distilled water heated to around 140°F a couple…

• Fountain Solution for Poly Plate Litho

  32oz cold water 1/2 tsp citric acid crystals 1 tbsp gum arabic solution

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  Floor Polish Hard Ground

  200 mL Mop & Shine floor polish 100 mL Liquitex Pouring Medium 100 mL Golden Carbon Black Fluid Acrylic 50 mL Water