every time i see like these neat and quick and clean videos of someone screenprinting i get so jealous because every time i try to screenprint the tiniest change in the weather or air pressure or i dunno the alignment of the stars messes with my ink and i need to remix it 😔
[Video description: a video showing the process of kitchen lithography. Step 1: stick a sheet of aluminium foil to plastic with water (and bits of tape.) Step 2: draw on it with permanent marker. Step 3: poor coke over the drawing. Step 4: remove the drawing with plant based oil. Step 5: wet the aluminium foil and roll ink over it. Step 6: print it on a sheet of paper with a spoon. It's a drawing of a person in a woody area wearing a hoodie, smiling serenely. /End video description]
I posted a video of me drawing this, and here's the entire process! I filmed it as kind of a promo video for an event in September where I'm going to give a mini-workshop
The last of my mono prints from project 3! • • • #art #litho #lithography #print #paper #ink #taste #vegetables #cooking #eating #color #eat #lithographs #mono #edition https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnmk30FLIip/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Okay drunk rant time so if you don’t I have a degree in art history and my favorite form of art is printmaking. Not only is it heavily tied into books (art and books are my one true love they are equal) but it’s a challenging process.
Anyway so I started out as a visual art major (I changed because my focus because I wasn’t competitive enough to put myself out there and realized I rather elevate existing artist rather then create art) but as all visual art and art history majors when getting your bachelors you have to take the 101 of every basic art class (drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, 2d design, 3d design, ceramics, and printmaking) and when I took printmaking I FELL IN LOVE
not only does this involve print and typography but it is a challenging medium. Okay so before I get into it let me show you the main types printmaking
Silkscreen, Intaglio, lithography, and woodblock
Everting minus silkscreen has to be drawn backwards because printmaking is like a stamp
Not only do you have draw everything backward but you have to make like 15 copies exactly the same down to little imperfection (think like the wood grain patterns the ink picks up)
Anyway I feel like this such a underpreicted medium that is actually one of the most challenging art mediums