Tag: Drypoint

Jordi Rosés teaching a carborundum course in Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca – Part I

July 19, 2017

Art Print Residence production

MONOTYPES, CARBORUNDUM
AND DIRECT TECHNIQUES

Given by Jordi Rosés.
July 10th to 21st 2017

Within the field of intaglio printing, increasing numbers of artists are becoming interested in less toxic, more eco-friendly techniques that are less hazardous for their health.
Jordi Rosés will introduce the participants to what are regarded as alternative non-toxic methods of traditional printmaking, such as the creation of monotypes, the use of additive techniques on plastic plates, like carborundum or collagraph prints, their combination with direct techniques on plastic, and the application of different printing methods to conclude the process.

Our hotel  in Palma.

First day course; showing and talking about collagraph processes.

Students making first plates

Work in progress Catherine Lorton

April 2, 2017

Catherine Lorto artist resident March 2017 from Catalonia

Making big size multiple carborundum plates

CATHERINE LORTON

Green etching non toxic intaglio course

January 30, 2017

Guest Teacher Angélica Mirauda

GREEN ETCHING COURSE + HAYTER TECHNIQUE INTENSIVE WEEKEND

28-29th January, 2017

“Grabado Verde”, as Mirauda calls it, is a new and environmentally friendly technique. The intention is not to replace the traditional printing methods, but it take advantage its qualities to make prints without impacting the environment.

The prints are made of “brick” matrices (packaging for milk, wine or other liquid foods) that reproduce the marks we have done on them, as well as their own marks and textures, when they are printed on paper.

By definition, “calcographic” engraving proceed of the greek words “chalcos” and “graphia” means an engraving or incised in copper. Over the time this term extends to all printmaking techniques made on other materials, such as zinc, brass and recently on plexiglas or cardboard boxes.

From the thirties, the great masters Henry Goetz and Stanley William Hayter suggested the idea that any material can be used as a reproducible matrix. Goetz used carborundum during the matrix creation and Hayter printed different colors at the same time by working the ink viscosity and with hard or soft rollers.