Printmaking in the Sun - Softcover

Welden, Dan; Muir, Pauline; Weldon, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823042928 ISBN 13: 9780823042920

Publisher: Watson-Guptill, 2001

Synopsis

Solarplate is a versatile and expressive new art medium. This book demonstrates how to use this simple technique to transform original drawings, photocopies, digital images, and photographs into high quality, finished prints. It explains how to use household items as equipment for printmaking, and gives step-by-step instructions for techniques, illustrated with color and b&w photos and examples. Of interest to students and experienced printmakers, photographers, and artists of all kinds. Welden has been working with solarplate printmaking since he created the technique in 1972. Muir is a printmaker and freelance writer. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

About the Author

Dan Welden, the creator of the solarplate printing technique, is an artist and teacher who conducts workshops widely and directs Hampton Editions Ltd., located in Sag Harbor, New York. Pauline Muir, a biologist, teacher, printmaker, and writer promotes nontoxic printmaking through her solarplate workshops held in South Australia.

Reviews

The first printmakers were cave people who painted their hands and slapped them against cave walls. Today, printmakers like Ayres still use methods nearly as simple. Others, like printmaker and painter Welden, have created completely new processes, like his solarplate method. Monotypes, the subject of Ayres's book, are created by applying oil- or water-based paint to a flat plate. By pressing a dampened sheet of paper to the plate, a single print is made. The earliest such prints go back to Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, around 1640. Later, Degas and Gauguin experimented with the method. Today, there is a virtual explosion of new ways to create monotypes. Ayres explores the work of a variety of such artists, who demonstrate imaging techniques, masks, stencils, collage, and mixed-media prints. The results vary from traditional images to eccentric, colorful fantasies. In 1972, Welden discovered that polymer printers' plates could be used in printmaking by exposing them to the sun. Draw on a transparency, place it over the plate, expose it to the sun, and the plate is, in effect, etched for printing. The method is now widely used, and Welden and Muir have produced the first book on this extremely versatile art. Both books are highly recommended.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Watson-Guptill
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823042928
• ISBN 13: 9780823042920
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144