How Stone Lithography Works
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How Stone Lithography Works. In this video I show you how I have made my first stone print and also explain the origins of stone lithography.
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Watch the video about the stone lithography of Michael Parkes here:
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So how does Stone Lithography work? You draw on a grinded limestone with a very smooth surface. You can sketch with a graphite pencil on the stone to set up your drawing. The graphite pencil won’t be printed, because it is not greasy. You have to protect the stone from your hands and fingers, because they can be greasy. So I made this sketch of an otter on the stone with a normal pencil. But you need a greasy pencil for the Stoneprinting to work. You have 5 different pencils you can work with 1 is the most greasy pencil and you can make very dark strokes with it and no 5 is the most precise and subtle pencil you can use. I drew this picture with a no. 4. I used some different techniques just to try out how it would work out. I did some cross-hatching and some gradients with little points. I also tried to make a smooth gradient with the greasy pencil. Just to see how it would end up in the print.
When you are finished with your drawing the stone is prepared with French chalk powder, this helps to protect it for the further process.
The stone is then processed with a mixture of gum Arabic and nitric acid. The gum separates the image area from the non-image areas. This is the etching of the stone. The drawing will receive the ink and will repel water. Everything that is not drawn will receive water. Usually you have to leave the stone for one day, so the etching can take place on the surface of the stone.
Then the stone is placed on the printing press. With turpentine oil the image will be washed off the stone. After that the stone is prepared with a thin layer of oily ink. Then you remove the water-soluble gum etch is removed.
Now the stone is ready for print. The drawn image receives ink and the rest of the image receives water. Before printing you have to keep the stone wet so that the ink will not print the empty areas. On a piece of glass you mix the ink and roll it with an inkroller.
Before applying the ink onto the stone. The stone needs to be wet. You roll several times on the stone with the ink. Then you need to fan the stone so that the water dries. Then you can apply the paper onto the stone. On top of the paper a plate of leather is placed with a bit of Ox gall. This helps the stone glide under the printing press. You move the stone under the press and then turn the lever to press down the paper onto the stone. With the turning wheel you move the stone and paper under the press. Then you release the press with the lever. Then you remove the leather plate and carefully remove the paper from the stone. This is my first stone print I have made.
For each print you have to repeat the same steps.
Wetting the stone
Apply ink
Fanning the stone
Paper on the stone
and printing the stone onto the paper.
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Stayf - JUST IN CASE you were saving one print for a good cause...I've been showing your video to my US History classes. After we spent some time analyzing this really cool lithograph from 1875 from the American Grange, many kids were asking, of course, 'what's a lithograph?' So, we thought your video was great and the answer to the question is Alois Senefelder. Thank you. - Bob Green, US History Teacher in Riverside, CA
This is probably the most informative, helpful video I have ever found on stone lithography, thank you
Much better than that American Dream video, that video gives lithography a bad name
You do this documentary style video really, really well.
Thank you so much Jordan, I really had fun putting it all together and of coarse enjoyed making the stone print. I may do some more stone pints in the future.
I'm not sure why or how but this vid made the most sense to me out of the few I've watched about stone printing! Maybe because it was your first stone print your explanation of it was ...well...that of someone who'd never done one before. . . so...I got it. Kudos! And nice print!
Great video, although I wish there was a little more detail on how the different chemical agents interact.
this is very enlightening; thanks for the art and the education!
excellently clear explanation
I just came across this video today and watching it brought back memories of my college art classes of over 40 years ago. I took a class in printmaking by Robert Allen Nelson who taught a variety of printmaking techniques but the emphasis was mainly that of stone lithography. I enjoyed the both the class and process so much that did two independent research classes in print making. Today my printing is strictly inkjet technology.
I love your video very much! Thank you for sharing it!
Thanks AP. I had lot of fun making my first lithograph print.
Thank you very much. You explained it really well.
It would have been good if you could make another video explaining how Color images are printed using Lithography.
After watching 10+ videos finally got it👌🏼❤️❤️ Thanks a lot for this 😍
Very good introduction indeed. Thank you very much.
Thank you very much for this really informative and clear video!
I have enjoyed each of your videos, and picked up a few tricks I never new about Procreate. I am glad Alois Senefelder invented Lithography, so you were able to enjoy the process and share it with us. Thank you.
Thanks! I love drawing in Procreate, but sometimes I like to explore old techniques!
Fascinating and ingenious.
Totally fascinating!
Very much enjoyed this video, Stayf. I work for and antiques and vintage poster dealer on Maui, in Hawaii, and I love seen how different artists present the stone lithographic process. Yours is my favorite so far, for how you wove the history of stone printing into the explanation. I am of the mind that knowing the history of something like stone lithography makes learning what it is and how it is done more interesting. It is arguably one of the most, if not the most, important visual form of art making in history. Certainly, there had been no time prior to 1880 where so many artists were akin to rocktars. Every day I get to tell people who walk into the shop that they are walking into a virtual time-capsule. One that is very much out of place sat here in the middle of Hawaii. But they are seeing something very special. The history of art in advertising. But it isn't the advertising bit that is important to me. It's that depending on the age of the poster, Early Belle Époque, art deco, WWI and WII, you get to see the clear passage and progress of printing beginning with the stone-lithograph. The pun would be very much intended in calling stone-lithography the bed-rock upon which Cappiello first laid the foundations for all modern advertising. The most effective and akin of which would be to catch a passerby's attention and convey one's message within seconds.
I got interested in Stone Lithography when I had to make a documentary about the lithographs of the artist Michael Parkes. The best way to find out was to do it myself. I only did one color, but to print in more colors is mind boggling. To keep the registration of each color. Also the large sizes these posters were printed. The art those artists like Cappiello produced is astounding. Great design and artistry. Nice to hear that you liked my video. I have been to Hawaii twice and really loved it.
very interesting, thank you for sharing!
Volgende week wordt de winnaar bekend gemaakt!
Alois Senefelder invented stone printing. I love this video. I learned a lot. I hope one day to print my artwork. Thank you.
You are welcome!
thank you for this informative video ! currently studying about lithographs for my Academic Decathlon art exam and this made it easier to understand :)
You are welcome Leslie.
Hi Stayf! It's always a pleasure !! A real good video very well done and really instructive !! Thanks for sharing !! Cheers !!
Thanks! Nice to hear. I enjoy making these kind of videos.
Awesome
Fantastic!👍👍👍
Rosin then french chalk is used and the primmer for the ink is usually aspheltum, but can be thinned down printing ink.
Wow. Thanks I’ve enjoyed the video.
Glad you enjoyed it
I just discovered your channel. Great stuff! Keep it up. Greetings from America!
Thanks man! Enjoy all the videos! Greetz, Stayf
thanks alot... it was helpful
most informative.. thanks.
Alois Senefelder! :)
Thank you for making this video. I learned a lot!
this is only lithography process vedio that I understand properly thank you so much and this is so helpful for my exam too....
Thanks, i did not fully understood the process until I actually did it myself.
Great Job!
Thank you! Cheers!
Great video, it was informative and fun.
Thanks Alexander.
Alois Senefelder! Thank you!
Very nice
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Also, the answer is Alois Senefelder!
Very interesting. Like lithography a lot. And by the way, I love it, when people who does not speak German, speak German. It sounds so charming :)
It was very useful 💕👌😍
alois senefelder invented... brilliant video.. thank you.
This is epic.
Alois Senefelder =) awesome indeed =)
Alois Senefelder :-)
Great video, great inspiration!
Thank you for your demonstration and explanation of lithography. The answer to your question is Alois Senefelder, invented lithography. Thank you.
“Blue Collar worker” Barney Rubble was actually the first Man to perfect this printing process
Learned alot🤎🤎
Think about printing press ( news papers) or stamps.
Wow, I once dreamed of combining stone litho with screen printing, the best of both worlds. I would build a rig to accurately place the paper on the stone. The rig would be removed obviously when printing.
I'm trying to understand how the artwork is prepared for multiple colors. So far all of the videos show drawing on a stone with grease pencils, which I get. But when there are sharp lines and tight registration of different inks, how does that work? Any references would be appreciated (even a book). Thanks.
How to print in color? Also wanted to see a closeup of the finished product
I have a lithograph stone that I found in Berlin Germany, do they have any value
Neat
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So it prints the image in reverse. Does that mean that as the artist, when you are drawing on the stone, you have to take this into consideration and draw the image initially backwards? If you forget to do this, is there some way you can still use that etched stone to print the image the way you want it, like transferring it somehow to another stone and then using that stone to make the paper prints?
What artists sometimes do is make a drawing with a normal pencil and then lay it on the stone and then rub it onto the stone. They use that as a guide and then draw with the special greasy pencils.
Damn!!
the link to the Parkes video is not active. Can you relink please
De uitvinder van steen printen is Alois Senefelder. Heb je al een winnaar uitgekozen? :)
Duidelijke documentaire die je hebt gemaakt Stayf! Nothing beats the old techniques to find something new ;)
Alois Senefelder invented stone printing
So it burns the background n everything you didn't draw, leaving the drawing raised a little bit?
yes, invented by Alois Senefelder! Nice video!
Thanks for the answer Janet!
As a german this pronunciation sounds fun lol but its a good video
Good old Alois Senefelder invented stone printing!
I’ve watched a few of these videos about lithographic printing and I still can’t quite work out what’s going on. Does the acid wash remove a layer of stone so leaving the inked portion raised? Or is the ink simply sticking to only the drawn areas? How does this work for those very detailed and photographic examples near the beginning of this video? Thanks for any answers.
The acid removes the gum arabic and etches the drawing. When you ink the stone and make it wet only the etched part will receive the ink.
@@StayfDraws Thanks for the reply. So the drawn area gets etched away and creates a recess into which goes the ink?
As far as I understood it, the surface remains flat, but the drawn areas aren't oil-repellent (the ink is oil-based) like the moist parts because they were protected from the acid, so water cannot penetrate the stone.
There is a technique called "kitchen lithography" where you draw on thin aluminium foil, and it works in a similar way.
one question if anyone knows. Can you reuse the stone or do you have to buy a new one each time?
You can re-use it, but the stone needs to be cleaned with rubble stone.
@@StayfDraws thank you.
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can you reuse the stone for a different drawing?
Yes you can. You have to grind it with marble dust to remove the image.
@@StayfDraws thanks
how did the german expressionist do their prints?
Alois Senefelder invented the stone printing.
Indeed! :)
Aloy senfelder invenced first.... M student of fine art in India watching first time lithograf.. Before professor teach us only theory thank to make video
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Stone printing was invented by Alois Senefelder.
I know you can get solutions for that on woodprix website.
oh :-(
A drawback is that the printed image will always be backwards! An opposite of the first drawing. :(
Maybe there's a way to transfer the image from that etched stone onto another one which you can then use to print on paper the right way around.
I STILL DONT UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS!
Kun je echt geen Duits uitspreken?
im only here because of my school
Its just calld "lithography" not "stone lithography". "Litho" means stone and "graphy" means image.
I know. But I wanted to make the distinction between lithography for offset and the traditional lithography.
Alois invented in 1796......i think so
Stone lithography? No, it's just lithography! The word stone is redundant. Lithography by definition implies that stone is used for printing
The origins of the word are due to the use of stone, but the definition has expanded and there are other types of lithography in use today.
Lithography literary means "writing on stone" you don't have to keep calling it "stone lithography"... it's redundant!