A light touch is needed, but heavy lines have a strong value and areas can be scored out completely to have blackness like no other plate can give. Things can be stuck on top to give texture, and textures from all kinds of materials can be impressed into the dry point board to create effects and textures not seen in other plates.
Here are a few of the plates and prints I have succeeded with, from the very beginning.
This was part of my self portrait project from last year. I only printed this twice, as we were looking at lots of different techniques and needed to move onto the next fairly quickly.
I love the cross hatching and the sparseness of the line.
This was part of the cutlery project that nearly sent me insane, but I like the colours I used on this print and the clarity of the lines. It was a very simple print which worked really well. Then we didn't do any more dry points, moving on to etching and collagraphs, which were OK but have to be worked at to produce a good print.
This is the first plate for the new project, What Am I Like? I started this at home as I only have facilities to produce dry point and collagraphs at home, and don't have access to etching equipment here. I will do next year though. I love the quirky perspective and the deep dark blacks.
This is really not my usual style or subject matter, preferring the darker scarier dead kind of subjects. But it's one of my cats, Thunder, taken from some sketches I had done for the new project. I love the lightness of the lines and the way that using dry point I can vary the strength of the lines without too much effort.
This is the plate for the as the print is still drying. My dog, Gaspode. He of the squidgy face and the desperate need for love and attention.
The rest of these are as yet unprinted, and vary in size from A4 size down to about 3 inch squares. When I have prints from these I'll post them with the next update.
This one is Gaia, she of the yip yip yippee and the anteater tongue.
This is the Chaos monster and I don't think I need to describe a cat with that name!
Mantelpiece details
Floor details
More mantelpiece details.
Sorry that this is such an image heavy post. But I just really enjoy playing with dry point at the moment and I wanted to share, I'm nice like that.
2 comments:
Great stuff. You make me want to do some.
People are always going on about printmaking and what's the point when there are much easier ways to reproduce images but there's nothing quite like the qualities you get from a print. Just the physicality of it- the way the plate grabs the paper... marvelous. And it's always surprising. Though I admit it used to drive me to despair at times and still does.
You made the most fantastic prints last year. I was astounded by the way you would stick with a plate and make it work for you. I don't have that level of patience.
Why don't you get the stuff out and get some prints made! It is nearly xmas after all.
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