I had my first experience of solar etching this weekend. Here's the result:
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| Untitled. 2013. Print on paper. |
The process is like sunbaking. You cover the parts on a photopolymer plate that you don't want to burn with absolutely anything at all. Those parts become the raised surface of the plate, from which you can print hundreds of copies.
I drew my Balinese guardian onto a transparent plastic sheet with a greasy crayon, clamped that to the plate, then put them in the sun for 45 seconds. After a couple of minutes of washing and drying I was able to print. That simple!
Interesting Gillian - I love experimenting. I'm so glad the days are over where we thought and were advice(long ago) to only use one medium and that's it. How more the merrier I should say. It seems that you can almost do anything that concerns art and design. How bless-full!
ReplyDeleteAnd it's fun seeing how the same image appears in different media. I'd say that digitisation is responsible for opening that one up, even in the undigitised arts.
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