Enquiry Does anyone know if you can get Solarplate in the UK or Anywhere else in Europe for that matter? I was looking at the solarplate.com website and thought that it could be useful in my work.
Alexis on 1/12/01 8:32 am, AUCTION FUN at font...@usa.net wrote: > Hello! > > Or buy the book "Printmaking in the Sun." Buy a photopolymer plate. > Expose your positive with an aquatint screen (80 or 90%) on the plate in > the sun or under UV light. Develop under running water with a brush. Give > it a final exposure to set the plate, And Intaglio print. Safe, Fast and > relatively inexpensive. The author has a web site solarplate.com and > explains the process an materials. > > I'd do some now, but I don't have access to a press. But what I've seen > have been EXCELLENT!!! > > Mac > > .>How 'bout we wait until after the reception? >> >> How 'bout you take my workshop next year? 8-) >> >> I'm not sure what you're asking, anyway. It's one of the standard >> variants: full-size positive on lith film, contact printed to potassium >> dichromate-sensitized paper-backed gelatin, affixed to a copper plate, >> aquatinted with resin, etched in a series of ferric chloride baths, >> steel-faced, and then printed onto damp paper using an etching press. >> >> I am trying to document the whole process in text and images for a >> website, but it's slow going. Good news is that I've tracked down two >> more of the cornerstone books on the subject and they should be arriving >> in the next week. >> >> There are other variants where asphaltum is used in place of resin, >> or where a halftone or mezzotint screen is used, but I'm not doing it >> that way. >> >> --Eric > > _______________________________________________ > Pinhole-Discussion mailing list > Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? > unsubscribe or change your account at > http://www.???????/discussion/
