New, (Magic 🪄) Ingredient for Viscosity Print
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2021
- In this video I improve my viscosity technique by applying Akua ink thickening paste to make my ink even more sticky. I am also using a small roller to reapply the lighter ink to achieve more contrast. The cutout plate shows some beautiful embossing which is so unique to printmaking.
MATERIALS
Intaglio Printmaker Inks: Sepia, Indian Yellow, Madder Lake
Paper: Snowden 300g
Press: Polymetaal HS-35 Tabletop Etching Press
Wood glue: Pollyfilla
Enviroboard
Shellac: Jackson's Art one is awesome!
0:15 - Explaining Digital Process
2:13 - Introducing the new ingredient
3:27 - Transferring image onto the plate
3:52 - Cutting out the image
4:54 - Transferring dark areas
5:00 - Cutting out dark areas
6:23 - Transferring Yellow looser ink areas
6:48 - Marking raised areas for yellow ink with 50:50 mixture of wood glue and pollyfilla
7:31 - Smoothing out the raised areas with wood glue to make them less ink absorbent
7:45 - Inking up for intaglio with sepia
7:60 - Wiping sepia ink off
8:23 - Preparing looser yellow ink
8:36 - Rolling looser ink over the plate with hard roller
8:39 - Preparing sticky ink
8:50 - Rolling sticky ink with softer roller over the plate
9:00 - Some more ink touch ups
9:30 - The big reveal! (edited)
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The most unique printing process in the world is called Viscosity Printing and it was invented by Stanley William Hayter. The first time this new technique was used to print a book, it took three machines six months of continuous operation around-the-clock with ten printers working simultaneously. A dense black ink mixed with oil varnish on silk paper that gives smoothness or viscosity when printed onto other sheets at right angles creates these prints which are also known as "simultaneous colour printing." - Навчання та стиль
I used to be a printmaker and am so grateful to find your videos! I'm tempted to get some cardboard and finally take my copper plates to the scap metal place...keep up the good work... that is a GORGEOUS, luscious print, and you should be very proud.
Thank you Anna, that is so nice to hear. As much as I love etching, collagraph is a bit less toxic and actually more interesting I think. I hope you have a go and come back to your printing passion
That is gorgeous! Thank you so much for sharing. I have just started experimenting with the mag mix and golden open acrylics which i just learned can be used together for printmaking. Great way to experiment while waiting for my printing ink colours to arrive.
That’s so interesting, thank you for sharing and watching 🤗
Lovely lovely!!
Thank you 🙏
Gorgeous ❤
Thank you 🙏
that is gorgeous!
Thank you 🙏
Wonderful! I particularly like the abstract quality of the overall image. Thanks for the visual delight.
Thank you Jose, really glad you enjoyed it!
Oh - you're using magnesium carbonate paste to thicken intaglio oil paint. Sorry, I got confused: I bought a little brown bottle of akua acrylic paint thickening agent and it was enormously expensive and I swore to myself that I'd find a cheaper alternatiive. But as a more economic alternative to the akua mag powder, I just got a box of magnesium carbonate that... boxers and gymnasts use! Recently in a film on lithography I noticed that they said they used... talcum powder!
Fabulous process to learn and a beautiful print! Thank you 😊
You are welcome Sally, thank you for watching
As always, so good 👍Keep up the great work!
Thank you Ifraan!
Hi Marta. Wow! Amazing viscosity print. I love the Akua products, primarily because they are environmentally friendly. Thanks for sharing (-: Marion 😊
Thank you Marion, hope your printmaking is going well
Hi Martha, love your videos and learning from you about collagraph and viscosity printing. Thanks so much. This print really works. Fabulous.
You can get magnesium carbonate powder (fine grade) which is the traditional printmakers modifier and easier to mix into ink (I think) than the Akua magmix. And cheaper I'm sure.
Must admit to roller envy!
Thank you Jenny! That is so interesting about the magnesium carbonate, I will get some and see what it’s like. Thank you for watching.
I❤ it
Thank you 🤗
Really beautiful print... I'm still looking for the secret ingredient that will make my acrylic paints stickier and thicker. I use so much paint that I can't afford to buy akua agents which is enormously expensive and I'd only waste... next experiment I'm mixing standard gel medium with various amounts of woodglue and talcum powder... Wood glue mixed with acrylic paints directly makes it thicker and heavier and it pools around the edges of the embossing folder. But my experiments continue. I mean, I might eventually find an economic alternative eventually! I also wanted to ask you: the fabric that you feed through the etching press: what is it? It appears white and because it's shiny I can't see it very well because of a problem with my eyes. Everything that is white glows. I just wanted to know if it was cotton, felt, leather or chamois fabric. I want to make something like that for my press which I can mark.
Interesting! It’s a special printing press blanket, but you could use felt as cheaper alternative
Thank you so much for sharing this with us! It is a gorgeous print. Can you please tell us what printer and transparent paper you used to print your digitally enhanced image? Thank you!
Thank you and you are welcome 🤗 I used a laser printer with acetate transparent sheet
Wow, beautiful print ♥️. Do you have a video on how you prepare your plates for printing (shellac part) ? Also which type of plate do you enjoy most? Thank you!
In quite a few of my previous videos I show how to shellac the plates. I normally brush over both sides and prefer to use Jackson’s art shellac as it allows for more detail to show through. I use enviroboard as a preferred plate. Thank you for watching 😁
@@CollagraphPrinting thank you! I do appreciate your reply. I will go through your video archives! Awesome videos 🌸
Are you using aqua washable inks, then? I can’t tell, and appreciate knowing products used, esp loved seeing Snowden paper used. Was curious, tho: I heard the reason printers use burnt plate oil ( at least for traditional oil based inks) is because it wont rot cotton rag? Thanks so much for sharing your experiences!
Hi Kat, I use oil based inks, intaglio printmakers. I am not sure about the rag rot, but I use linseed oil to loosen the ink so that it repels the next layer of link which hasn’t been diluted.
Thanks: I didn’t know if Akua products could be mixed with oil based inks!
@@katmcgee9516 they are not, I don’t use Akua ink in this video
great video! Do you use Akua ink? And which linseed oil and mediaum did you use? Thanks!
Thank you! I use Intaglio printmaker ink (they have a shop in London as well as online). I used here Akua thickening paste and linseed oil from Howthorn print. I use enviroboard which I bought from Handprinted. Hope it helps
@@CollagraphPrinting Thanks!!!
What was the surface used as a plate for viscosity?
You can use mounting card or any cardboard
What's the plate made from?
Mount board called enviromount
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