Plate I made today:
Plate I made today:
Is this a copper plate or solar plate? I don't know much about the process but would love to learn. Any good books or information on the process. My wife has a Conrad press that I would like to use.
Very nice! +1 on the details
The process, as described by Kolb, looks daunting. I guess the advantage over Polymer Photogravure is the number of acceptable prints per plate.
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Copper plate. I took a workshop. Here on the East coast the person to see is Lothar Osterberg
An absolute master at this process is Russel Dobbs. Using a plastic material, he's perfected a process where the most serious chemical used is water! Check with the Wash. State U. Vancouver Ext. Graphics Dept. for possible workshops. I've taken this workshop, and it's excellent.
my vote goes for Kari Holopainen - a true master!! Makes prints where he makes several plates - amazing..
good old danish invention... (Eli Ponsaing 1989)
Look here: (polymer gravure - not copper plate)
http://personal.inet.fi/taide/kari.h...yyri/page1.htm
I have Kari Holopainen's book. Love it but copper is something else (for example you can continue to work a copper plate using traditional intaglio techniques making the end result a combination of a drypoint and photogravure.) Making multiple print plates is pretty normal practice btw. It does require good registration.
The book Copper Plate Photogravure: Demystifying the Process by David Morrish and Marlene MacCallum is better than the Kolb book, IMHO.
(I would only add that many "non-toxic" processes do in fact use toxic product such as potassium dichormate within the pre-sensitized gelatin and so appropriate care has to be taken at all times)
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