It was the 4th week on my internship at Leicester Print Workshop this week, and I learned how to transfer a drawn image to a litho stone using transfer paper. I’ll attempt to show the step-by…
Lithography was a popular method of printing music as it had been used to print other images besides music. Lithography was used extensively for music printing.
Today artists use stone lithography to produce fine art prints but 150 years ago it was THE color-printing technology. It's an incredible art form. Take a photo-filled look at this fascinating process.
Lithography: Lithography has many processes within itself, paper plate lithography, stone lithography, plate litho, and polyester plate lithography, just to name a few. I thought I would run through a couple and review the structure that of all of them stand on. All lithographic technology is based on the simple principle that oil and water do not mix. Paper plate lithography (also know as xerox lithography, if you hear xerogrpahy they are trying to sound more than they are) is the easiest technical explanation of this premise. When put through a laser printer (a printer with toner rather than ink) the colored powdered plastic we call toner covers the paper in whatever image we choose. The plastic toner is melted onto the paper sealing one side of the paper in whatever your image choice is. The paper is then wet with gum arabic and water. (Gum arabic and the paper are both hydrophilic (they love water)). The print inks used in this process are oil based. So with the paper soaking in some of the water and the toner repelling water due to it being plastic. The ink is rolled over the whole sheet of paper and will only stick to the toner. In this way you can print up your paper plate in any color of your choice. (seen below is one in process) The paper plate is then run through the press with dry or damp paper to come out with the print. example of lithographic limestone All lithographic processes are similar at base, some are done on stone, some on steel plates, they can be based in drawing or in photography. It is one of the most challenging technical processes in printmaking but also one of the most rewarding. Paper being pulled off stone after printing. The following are examples of Stone Lithography from one of the masters Oldrich Kulhanek I got to see this in person as a student at The University of Florida and it was one of the reasons I pursued stone lithography as a focus for almost 5 years. His work is also the first image you see in this post.
It was the 4th week on my internship at Leicester Print Workshop this week, and I learned how to transfer a drawn image to a litho stone using transfer paper. I’ll attempt to show the step-by…
Cormorants on a rocky cliff, a reproduction from one of my original multi-colour stone lithographs. Professionally printed on white matte card stock and sealed in a clear envelope. Image area is 15 3/4" x 11" with white border suitable for framing. Stone lithography is an increasingly rare method of making art. I draw the image on a large flat slab of limestone which I transfer to a hand-operated litho press and print the image onto the paper. Each colour is applied separately, so depending on the amount of colours, it can take two months to produce one lithograph.
Hand-pulled stone lithography on heavy-weight paper.30 cm x 43,5 cm Edition of 15Signed and numbered by the artist.View more works by Nanna Hvass here.
Hand-pulled stone lithography on heavy-weight paper.29,5 cm x 32,5 cm Edition of 6Signed and numbered by the artist.View more works by Nanna Hvass here.
Here's part of my "Inner / Outer Journey" lithography project. A real, live litho stone hand-worked with lithography crayons and inks. We are fortunate to get to work with lithographic stones here at the university, as there are few left out there in the world. The original quarry used for mining them has been closed for a while now. Anyway, this is a counter etch of the first image (you can see a proof pulled from the first version here on Flickr), BEFORE etching. The photo here shows the stone surface in mid re-draw, after counter etching more than 50% of the original image. I basically knocked out the background to create the new version of the image, with the incense burner lit.
I’m still working on my stone litho hand-printing method. It takes a lot of burnishing to get a good print! #printmaking #lithography. Valerie Syposz · Original audio
Lithography is the art of printing from stone. The process was invented by Alois Senefelder in 1796, and the fundemental principles that he established have remained unchanged. By writing or drawing with a greasy ink on a specially prepared slab of limestone, the grease is absorbed by the stone and the image thus formed has an affinity for printing ink, while the remaining parts of the stone repel the ink as long as the surface is kept moist with water. Lithographic presses are cylinder machines for printing from the lithographic stone or plate. In early models c1860 the stone was fixed to a bed which moved to and fro beneath a cylinder. The next major advancement was the introduction of the 'direct rotary' press with two cylinders, which, when printing, revolve continually in contact with each other. On one cylinder is the plate and the second carries the sheet. Around 1908 the 'offset press' was introduced which enables fine lines and half-tone dots to be printed on either smooth or rough-surfaced paper. The off-set machine consisted of three continually revolving cylinders. The first carrying the printing plates with its damping and inking mechanism which makes contact with the rubber blanket moulded on the middle cylinder; the blanket offsets the design to paper, carries by the third cylinder. Edinburgh City of Print is a joint project between Edinburgh City of Print is a joint project between the City of Edinburgh Museums and the Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE). The project aims to catalogue and make accessible the wealth of printing collections held by the City of Edinburgh Museums. For more information about the project please visit www.edinburghcityofprint.org Image courtesy of SAPPHIRE
Lithography: to write w/ stone Lithographic Landscapes Art Focus: Mark-making & Texture Questions: How do I utilize drawing characteristics to create texture in landscape? A video about Lithography (planography): https://www.youtube.com/watchv=JHw5_1Hopsc&feature=youtu.be As we have learned, relief prints are created from a raised surface; Planography however, is the printing of a flat surface. Lithography is the art of printing from a flat stone (limestone) or plate by a method based on the sim
