Print Tech


This month in the Leeway Studio I am rebuilding the Sturgeon image as a large lift print. The original collagraph plates (lower photo) have been traced as the guidelines for the new work. I am using Charbonnel ink for the lift prints.




Tests with Akua water based etching inks - wood cuts
multiple blocks








                                  






  Fox -  Wood cut, reduction print and multiple blocks 
using graphic chemical etching inks



Old Speedball, reduction woodcut
using speedball water based relief inks






Akua etching ink test - multiple block birch ply



Oil based ink, chine colle, woodcut


Braids - oil based ink on mulberry paper - woodcut



Fiddle - oil based ink on mulberry paper, reduction woodcut