Another new set of prints for the “Orkney Stone Tools” project. These are all based on archival material from a variety of sources, all connected with the project. Some museum imagery, some site drawing, photography and autographic layers, all combining to create a single image. Hopefully giving a sense of the multi-layered contextual quality of …
Category archives: Polymer-gravure
Multiplate
A combination of three plates – the background is a drypoint on zinc, the overlayed image is both photo-polymer and chine-colle or another drypoint, the third element is a small solarplate plate of a peony flower.
Toyobo Plates
“Toyobo” plates are one of the proprietary polymer or flexographic plates readily available to the print-maker. They are a nylon based polymer material backed with a thin stainless steel sheet. When used with a photographic image they give a very similar effect to a photo-gravure plate. they are capable of developing a very broad range …