Saturday, April 11, 2009

First experience with solar plates


So I accidentally used wood cut ink so it was hard to clean up and it took a while but I have heavy dark black areas in this print. There is also some cool imperfections from it being hard to wipe up. I printed on the back of the BFK so you can see the grain of the paper on some of the prints which gives an interesting effect as well. Overall this is much easier than traditional etching yet uses traditional printing process. I plan to incorporate this print with some photo transfers of flames and red flowers.