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
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