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
