Editioning

Madeleine and I are not really editioners.  We usually both make one-off pieces.  So making editions is a bit of an anathema for us.  We have both made a promise to TRY and keep a record of what paper we have used  and how we made certain marks on a plate.  I once saw a fabulous technicians note book at the Peacock studio in Aberdeen filled with a record of a prints progress how the colours were mixed and what colours went where.

This work is for the background page of our 'Wave Book'.  Drawn with inks and water based pigment

These lithography prints are for the pages of the 'Shell Book'.  The lithography plate that has proved to be a bit of a fight.  On Japanese paper.  They are waiting for another layer.

One more struggling day

The Wave Book

A dozen little waves waiting to be drawn, two transparent layers lain on top of a backing layer.

Test piece for backing layer.

Trouble Shooting

A good day for me....Sue....as we have encountered many plate problems today, so I have a folder full of solutions and we have created some interesting results.  We had to make a new plate for the second layer of the shell book cover.

Painting on the gum arabic

Then a coat of Klear/Future...when this is dry it will be rinsed with water to remove the gum arabic

 

Final Print ready to be divided......

Starting an edition

It's been a slow start, Sam has been ill...but today we started on the shell beach book printing the covers and drawing the litho plates for the inside pages.  The originals were made on the polyester litho plate from the UK and they are dreadful.  So we have had to start again with Pronto.....this can be ordered from the States www.renaissancegraphics.

the drawn pronto plate

Preparing the ink, the prepared plates waiting.

The first layer down, one more layer to go.  This will be divide into sections to make the covers.

Display in Engramme, Quebec City

We recently posted some of our research work and haiku from the beach series in a display cabinet in Engramme print centre

It's in a corridor...bit difficult to photograph!