In publishing we have been looking at different print types. Today we have been looking at sun
printing. We had to draw four rectangles and on each of them draw 4 designs for which we would choose our favorite one. James gave each a sheet of sun paper, this is a special type of paper which is sensitive to sunlight. We used objects from our design to put onto the sun paper and left them in the sun to expose for 2 minutes. The sunlight burnt the outline of the objects onto the paper. James then added water over the top of the paper and this set a reaction off and created the burnt images to look a lot clearer.
Mono Printing with Sally 21/09/10
Yesterday we went down to the print making room and met Sally, she is in charge of the print making room. she talked us through a print making process called Mono printing. This means only one, original hand created print. We had to get an ink roller and roll out the ink until it was smooth, even and thin. after we had done that we rolled the ink onto the special ink plates. We lightly overlaid a sheet of paper, onto which we drew a picture of an object, but we couldn't rest out hands onto the plate because it would cause the paper to blot the ink up. After we had drawn the image we had to take the paper off, this left us with a negative print (the image scribed into the plate) and the positive print (the image on the paper), we used various techniques to get shading and things on the print, but using our fingers and pencils. We put the positive print in the rack to dry, and took the negative print over to the big roller, which we laid another piece of paper over the plate and rolled the roller over, this created a negative print on a piece of paper.
Intaglio printing with James __/__/__
Last week James gave each of us a piece of perspex and a tool used for scratching the perspex. we all had to scratch a design onto it and try to use different types of lines and applying more pressure for the lines to be deeper. After you have scratched your design you put ink over the top which then sinks into all the lines we scratched, take a piece of paper and lay it over the top to soak up all the unwanted ink. when we blotted up all the ink we removed the piece of paper and the ink had taken up the lines which created our image.
