Embossing can be done beautifully by hand using an agate burnisher and a hand cut stencil. However, a printing press can increase the production of embossed images using hand cut stencils for something like wedding invitations, like this image by Tony Woodhams. Rowena Dallas-Mayer made her template for this lovely B by cutting out the B from Saunders Waterford HP 300gsm and then sticking the background onto some archival mountboard. She then took it one step further by peeling away the B by … [Read more...]
Behold how good…screened and cut letters
Here is the screened piece I started on Friday. I'm not too sure if I carried off the informal spacing, but I think I'm happy with it. I must say, it was really fun to just draw and cut letters without agonising. The photo was taken in the winter dappled sunshine to show the embossing. The B has a menorah behind it and there is a design at the bottom. I did four prints on different papers and I like this one where you can see the roughness of the paper through the screening (ampersand, T, … [Read more...]
Cut & Screened letters
I am making a "poster" for an elderly gentleman's 80th - he was a vicar and I was asked to do a card for everyone to sign. It's turned out to be A3, but that was because I had the idea of screenprinting. I'll put it into an folder and they can sign that. His name is Bruce, so I looked for a verse starting with B. The B and the word pleasant will be in orange and the rest in grey. Then there will be some blind-embossing over the B and the pattern at the bottom. (All this is practise for The Rope … [Read more...]
Rope of Words 7 – Collograph 4
So, Horatio? Into the Gap!This is my Artist's Book year and I am determined to research it thoroughly. I have now investigated collograph, spent many days on it, been disappointed and guess what?While I was screenprinting my family surname document, I was waiting for the screen to dry and started chatting to the technician. I said I thought running an un-inked plate to emboss might be better, so we tried it.te Dummmm...this has possibilities!(I will need to increase the depth and sort out the … [Read more...]