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Intaglio experimenting with many different ways to print using the same plate.
Intaglio experimenting with many different ways to print using the same plate.
Wood Nymph Series
Intaglio monoprint. Four plates with stencils.
Wood Nymph Series - Color Experiment
Two color experiments with the same plates. Intaglio Prints drying (above) with stencil plan and copper & zinc plates (below).
Wood Nymph Series
Intaglio monoprint.
Wood Nymph series
Intaglio monoprint.
Copper and zinc plates for Wood Nymph Series
This is how the intaglio plates look before inking. The artist works in reverse, as when the plate is printed the image prints in reverse.
Close up of copper intaglio plate
Note the bas relief made by engraving, dry point and etching.
Close up of Zinc plate.
Note the bas relief with engraving, dry point and etching.
Printing plan with stencil layout indicated.
Copper plate printing plan with stencil layout
Inked plates with plan for leaf stencils layout.
Plates on the press bed, inked, wiped and ready to be run through the press and printed.
Copper plate with leaf stencil layout plan.
Zinc plate with leaf stencil plan layout.
Intaglio Inks for A La Poupee'
A La Poupee’ is a process to apply mulitiple colors of ink selectively to an intaglio plate and run through the press at the same time.
Leaf stencils on A La Poupee' inked plates
Plates ready to lay damp paper over them and run them through the press.
Plates and final print after run through the press.
Four plates run through the press two plates at a time.
Print Detail with leaf stencils.
Print detail with leaf stencils.
Print Detail with leaf stencils.
Print Detail with leaf stencils.
Print detail with stencils.
Wood Nymph
Final monoprint with four plates, two runs through the press.