Copper Plating and Etching Altoids Tins. UPDATE: There's some great information on this page and it's comments, but I've recently published a far more comprehensive article here: Etching Tins with Salt Water and Electricity With this project I wanted to try a number of new things: Magazine pages as cheap toner transfer mediaCopper electroplatingEtching Altoid tins with a salt water solution The copper plating met with mixed success, but the other two methods resulted in some nice pieces.
Note: blue vitriol and muriatic acid are archaic names for copper sulfate and hydrochloric acid. Magazine pages for toner transfer: While looking for information on transferring toner using a fuser assembly from an old laser printer I ran across several websites where people suggested using glossy magazine pages for transferring printed circuit board images to a copper substrate. Preparing the Altoids tins turned out to be harder then I predicted. Next we: Copper Plating Altoids Tins: From the picture below, this appears to work.
Blog: Printing with Taring Padi. Posted March 30, 2010 by roger_peet in Art & Politics Here's a little photo essay showing the printing process used by Indonesian print cooperative Taring Padi, including images from all stages of the process, from sketching to carving to printing.
I had the chance to help print some copies of this massive block, which is the Taring Padi half of a project addressing issues related to natural gas exploitation on both sides of the Pacific: the three Portland Justseedsers (Pete, Icky and Roger) will be working on their half in the coming month. We'll be working with local nonprofit Bark to promote exhibits and displays of the two prints in towns along the route of the proposed Palomar gas pipeline this summer. Enjoy the photos! Sketching the initial design on MDF hardboard. Collaborative carving! The finished block. Rolling up and smoothing canvas. Inking with awesome homemade brayer. Rolling the canvas onto the block. Printing! More printing! The reveal! A rich harvest... Comments Post a comment. Matte Printing Instructions. Michelle ward: tutorial: cutting stencils. Much of this information was previously published on my street team blog, or my main blog, but I have gathered it all into one place to encourage you to make your own stencils or masks, or both!
The July/August 2012 Somerset Studio had an article about stencils, in my column Make It Your Own. Recently I have been enjoying using Tyvek to cut stencils with a dual purpose. The material is easy to handle and is so thin it works very nicely with acrylic paint. It also retains the paint better than an acetate stencil which suits my purpose of employing the stencils to make marks, then incorporate the actual piece as a collage element. The layers of paint are so random and handsome - I have to use it! Www.GreenPepperPress.com Previously published material from GPP Street Team site. So we spoke about tyvek and acetate, but you don't have to have all the specific supplies to make either a stencil or a mask. I have purposely not covered "people" or "portrait" stencils because I don't do it alot.
Tugboat Printshop: Woodblock Cuts and Prints. Tugboat Printshop is the home woodblock print studio of artists Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth.
They create their prints completely by hand—art, woodblock carving, printing and all. In doing so, they hope to preserve and expand the art of woodcutting and woodblock prints. They try to keep pieces affordable but of high-quality, using only top-shelf materials. It's amazing to me how much work goes into each print and how every little detail must be precise, or the final image will flop. I'm thankful that they share their process, because, not only does it show the labor involved, but, to me, each process piece is artwork in itself, and I love seeing the prints unfold from the blocks. A number of prints include handcrafted type, which is fun to see, and all of the prints have bold lines and rich color characteristic of the genre. They show their prints and processes at their blog. Some other posts you might enjoy on our design blog: