Prints!

A couple of prints. These two were actually made in a Green Ink Print Methods class I took during my last spring semester.

Potato Print. Water based ink on paper.

Detail.

Now this next print was made with a pretty crazy process. It was printed with a waterless lithography process. It involved drawing on a metal plate with a special water soluble litho pencil. Next the drawing was washed out using only water, a little rubbing, and the occasional squirt of soap when needed. Now the next step was just like more traditional lithography, the plate was rolled up with ink and printed. However, the best ink for waterless litho is rubber based ink, which is a very short, stiff ink. I believe that rubber based ink has stopped being manufactured, but UD just so happened to have what is probably the last can in existence.

Print quality was pretty unreliable and unpredictable with this process. Prints at first were very light and would fill in quickly resulting in only one or two prints with a nice black density. I managed to get five total pulls off my plate before it started filling in with ink. An interesting process to have learned, though I still prefer traditional lithography processes.

Untitled. 22"x30". 2009. Waterless Lithograph on Rives BFK White.

Detail.