dMax
What can you say about dMax that has not already been said? A little. And tons. In the analogue days of old it was drilled into us by our teachers that a darkroom print required a strong black and a white. Yet, they never literally meant that. They attempted to get us to see contrast in order to awaken our senses. We needed a strong white and a strong black in order to first see that. Then,...
Read MoreDigital Carbon Tintypes with Bonny Lhotka
Way back in 1992 I gave a workshop at the Massachusettes College of Art called “Beyond the Digital Print”. I paired an IRIS 3047 printer with an etching press inside of a traditional printmaking studio. About a dozen people attended and Bonny Lhotka was one of the most memorable to me. She had this unbridled enthusiasm for the transfer techniques I demonstrated. Twenty years later, I...
Read MoreSomething extreme
In 2005, I discovered a very exciting paper that is hand made in Japan only by custom order. This paper is 21st century adaptation of traditional Japanese washi. I’ve been printing on this paper continuously ever since. I’m having somewhat of a love affair with it. Each sheet is an object. Actually, each sheet is carefully inspected and measured for weight and then carefully tagged at...
Read MorePhotogravure using Image-on HD and Piezography Digital Film
The photogravure process with Image on requires that the blacks first be formed by exposing the plate through an aquatint screen, which, if left unaltered, when inked, would produce a rich black over the whole surface. The subsequent exposure through a film positive causes the Image-on HD film to “close up” the wells of the aquatint relative to the density of the film positive – more...
Read MorePiezography ink workshop
After a gathering of printmakers at the SPE conference in March 2011, vaguely documented here - Jon Cone invited everyone to Cone Editions for a “Piezography ink workshop” or print-fest, general gathering.. as Scott King and Bill Kennedy were planning to attend an unrelated workshop in the area. With Walker a Vermonter, that left just John Dean and myself having to travel. Ultimately...
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