Press and Roll: Printmakers making Mail Art

I am continuing to experiment with the Gelliarts.com plate. I used a stencil in this one--but it is the 'ghost' of the original print. The stencil was made  from a sketch of trees trunks at Point Reyes National Seashore. I added inks for more color and glued on a piece of the original print on the left side as contrast/design elements.

Carmela, this is lovely. Yes the ghost prints are often more interesting than the first. Were the inks added to the plate or after you pulled the print?  Great direction you're going in!

Bellydance 14, Solarplate relief print

Litho print made with photopolymer plate from an original digital drawing

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

Hand-pulled pigment ink transfer print.

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.

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...

Prints received from Dorian Ribas Marinho, Brasil

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.

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.

Just made an album with some of the prints received from Emilio Carrasco, Mexico. Check the album out. Here is one image.

Guido, Ilike very much your etchings !!! as Dan said, one can recognise your style in them ,too...I just want to ask you to make some other prints with other colours just using the same original plates...that would be an iteresting provocation,to obtain new colour surfaces.You need ,of course the printing machine.

You old book is so precious too !

and there is letter-press

MODERNart lino-printing  +watercolour.

Thanks for sharing these, Carl. Very unusual optical effects.

carmela,

first one, the watercolour crinkled,deformed the paper,

maybe an optical effect, second one is on textured paper,

a little grainy........

dan, thank u, i appreciate yr comments>

Great works Carl, I used watercolors on engravings in styrofoam and that works 2 though not very stable but who cares!

Found this new print from Carlos Botana (Spain) in issue 6 of the zine in a box assembies, developed by PC Tictac (Germany), see entries on the group collaborative books.

Guido--thanks for letting us know about this unique 'zine work. Really like the cover--sculptural asemics?

new letter-press, 2 versions>

from the press today

1/ old wood type on handmade paper

2/wood-cut pattern.

from Frieder, an early silkscreen that I really love:

Thanks Jan its great you like it thats what its for

our local small press book fair>

LETTER-press project, 2 versions.

Carl, I like both versions of your letter press project. Very nice!

DAda poem,  letter press w/ pencil crayon>

the roller test-print for1-2-3

today, wacky letter-press w/ letters&symbols.

black ink, cream paper.

the rock'n roll letter-press>>>>

I really like this, Carl. Nice job!

thanks terry, just doin' my job>

printing press&collage.

we are printing, the pages of a road atlas w/wood block printing, watercolour and additional pencil/

I love what you are doing with the road atlas, Carl. You are such an inspiration!

these are revised lino prints, i add a watercolor wash and sharpen them in the edit program, i have about 15-16 versions, will post others at my page.

ANGIE, thanks for yr interest, cb.

another letter-press project, big red numerals.

interesting results : trace with markers an image under clear plastic sheet .. Then "print" it on porous paper slightly dampened...

print with soft-kut rubber material + other markings>

small woodcut

thanks frieder, looks good>>>>>