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for the past 15 years, I have been focusing on Monotype process
Using viscosity
Using oil based litho and etching inks
and using different levels of
very stiffing or oil ink that will repeal or
attract each other and applying
several layers of ink in the same plate
and printing it, as opposed to....
Instead of putting one layer of ink
and printing the same image 2 or 3 different times
I was applying several layers of ink to the same plate.
It's a technique I learned from Gene Lemar from California
The first prints made were the Bibles
and playing cards, things for the common man
if you couldn't afford an altar piece in your house
you can afford
Albrecht Durer's wood cut version of the same image
so to me it's very important to have
artwork that can be for common person
I have been developing my way of working
for the past 15 years and I have arrived at
a way of working I am comfortable with. I have a relationship now
were I know a little more what the inks are going to do
I can predict things a lot
I can visualize how the things will look like... more now than I did fifteen years ago
You constantly learning new things
There is always new mediums that are being developed
or modifying the inks
There is a lot of mediums that are made for photography or etching
or different type of printmaking that can be be utilized
in the viscosity technique.. so I'm always trying different things
using different plates: aluminum plates, plexi plates
copper plates...
There is also different services you can work on...
different papers:
rice papers, japanese papers...
The tactile aspect of working with different
papers and the inks
the feel of mixing the inks and rolling them out and knowing how to get the layers just right
not too thick, not too thin.. The mark making...
additive, subtractive, working with the stencils
the chine-collé, multiple plates...
using different types of brushes
I think within the viscosity printing
you ruling out such a thin layers. Sometimes
even the temperature: on a very hot day
The ink tends to be very soft. In a cold environment, your inks don't flow
the same they would.
it's very different from day to day
The inks you mix up will act differently on a warm day
than they would on a cool day
One of my favorite thing is to share information, especially in a teaching situation
with children or adults... when working with people who are experienced
there's always something you can learn from them
working with children, very often they can come up with ideas
you might not think of... they have a very unconventional
way of thinking... Working with people
who are from other medias
a lot of time when I work with sculptors, they're so used to working with
mass
so a lot of time, they will, just by habit
think of things as being thick, so they will use thick layers of ink
as opposed of someone who is a painter who might use thinner
layers... so you have to work around that and adjust
your strategies of teaching someone.
But sometimes thick layers work...
You have to work with how they want to put the ink
I think it's rewarding and I love doing it
anyone that comes in and want to learn about printmaking... I enjoy sharing
what we have. Showing then the work that you've done
the work I have done with other artists. and that's it!