I loved her so much, I made some mono-prints of her.
One of my favorite printing techniques uses watercolor paint and mylar. I use frosted mylar, and just paint the image in reverse. Most Windsor Newton watercolor paints work just fine, but a few colors are based on dyes rather than on pigment, and don't transfer to the paper well.
I will be teaching this technique in my print class, so I needed to try out all my colors.
They all worked!
Using my baby press, I printed the images on 90# watercolor paper that had been soaked in water for about 20 minutes.The next step is to print the lines over the images with an intaglio plate made with a ball point pen on mat board.
I love this Suzanna. Beautiful! I have never done intaglio but sounds interesting. Look forard to the next step. (are you going to post? please?)xm
ReplyDeleteI planto do a little post on making the intaglio plate and the results I get, probably early next week. Thanks for asking!
ReplyDeleteOh, beautiful, Suzanna -- I'm inspired!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jane.
ReplyDeleteSo good to hear from you. When are you coming home?
Good question :-). Seriously, I'm trying hard to get us back by the Spring Equinox. We'll see!
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