Here’s a five plate printmaking project. It’s not a traditional reduction, I’ve made five actual plates. The plate design was made to have no overlap between the inks on any of the five plates. So in theory the different inks can be applied without drying between layers (I worked the details for that out when doing some small prints of Einstein, Monroe, a cat named Max and my friend Inessa).

After the design work was done I carved the five acrylic plates using CNC laser. I used the CNC to vector cut the plates from the acrylic sheet as well.  From there it is was added to an oven heated to 325, then stored to cool between some heavy aluminum blocks. I then used a tape down registration system for the blocks plus tape hinge for the work piece. I blended a bit of screen print ink along side the relief print ink for the brighter reds.

This was a challenging piece but I love how it came out and I learned quite a bit.

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Published on: Dec 20, 2017