Press and Roll: Printmakers making Mail Art

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Comment by Guido Vermeulen on August 7, 2014 at 10:49am

Engravings, yes. There is no acid involved in making prints from plexi, a bit like dry needle on plates. I guess 2 that DSA made lino's.

Here is a photo of the manual book on litho, from 1908. Interesting is that the book is for the printer, so the skilled workers in the print shop.

Comment by Dan Mouer on August 6, 2014 at 11:32am

Carmela,
There is nothing imferior aout using a Gelli Plate. It is simply a latter-day version of traditional gelatin printing, which was oftem used to make prints with leaves, flowers and other natural materials. Its is, of course, also a form of monotype printmaking which was widely used by many great artists of the 19th and early 20th century period. I have not yet used the Gelli Plate my spouse bought be for Christmas last year, but I love making monotypes on glass and plexi using water soluble inks and crayons.

Comment by Dan Mouer on August 6, 2014 at 11:26am

Guido, Your prints are wonderful! I would call those engravings rather than etchings, but it is obvious those are works of your hand...I can recognize your drawing style even when you have used a drill rather than a pen or brush. Mr Aponte's relief prints are also quite nice. Do you know how they were made. I guess they mit be linocuts.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on August 6, 2014 at 11:00am

And some prints received from David Stanley Aponte, USA.

Prints on such thin paper you see the mirror (or the original etching) on the verso. Now why did I not think of that myself? LoL.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on August 6, 2014 at 10:57am

Prints received from Dorian Ribas Marinho, Brasil

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on August 6, 2014 at 10:54am

Thanks Dan for the tip and the images. Here are some images of etchings I did in plexi glass (using a small drill). I even did etchings in real glass (thick glass from aquariums) but then you need protection (hands, eyes, nose) because parcels of glass will penetrate you...

Comment by Carmela Rizzuto on August 1, 2014 at 8:11pm

Hi Dan--thanks for adding your varied techniques to this discussion. The photopolymer plate and solar-plate prints are excellent examples of these techniques. Just as lithography has fallen out of vogue we will probably see computer generated prints render more traditional printmaking techniques obsolete.

PS: I miss being able to use a press and have resorted to Gelli-printing-- a low tech medium.

Comment by Dan Mouer on August 1, 2014 at 3:38pm

Hand-pulled pigment ink transfer print.

Comment by Dan Mouer on August 1, 2014 at 3:32pm

Lithographic print made with photopolymer plate from a halftone of an original photograph.

Comment by Dan Mouer on August 1, 2014 at 3:29pm

Litho print made with photopolymer plate from an original digital drawing

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