Akua Carborundum Gel with Wax Mediums
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Susan Rostow, inventor of Akua printmaking inks demonstrates two new methods for using Akua Carborundum Gel™
RELIEF METHOD Mimicking Litho with Wax
Create “litho-like” impressions by drawing on a dry-coated Carborundum plate with black litho pencils, crayons, or china markers. Akua Release Agent is rolled on top of the drawing to release the drawing from plate to paper.
INTAGLIO METHOD
Mimicking Mezzotint with Wax
Create “mezzotint-like” impressions by drawing on a dry-coated Carborundum plate with wax crayons, candles, or white china markers. The coated Akua Carborundum Gel plate replaces the time-consuming method of rocking the plate and the wax replaces burnishing by smoothing out the rough surface.
Supplies used:
FOR COATING THE PLATE
Akua Printmaking Plate
Akua Carborundum Gel
Speedball Screen Printing Screen Mesh (110 Mesh Count)
Speedball Red Baron™ Squeegee
plastic tape
FOR RELIEF METHOD
litho pencils and crayons (soft # 2 to hard # 5 )
Black china marker
black pencil for paper, glass, plastic and metal
Akua Release Agent
Speedball Soft Rubber Brayer
Slightly Dampened Arnhem 1618™ Printmaking Paper
Drawing or photo (optional)
Light table (optional)
Etching Press
FOR INTAGLIO METHOD
white china marker
wax candles
bee’s wax blocks
Akua Wiping Fabric
Cotton swabs
Akua Intaglio® ink
Speedball Soft Rubber Brayer
Slightly Dampened Arnhem 1618™ Printmaking Paper
Drawing or photo (optional)
Take a Hands-on Workshop: Ongoing workshops using Akua Inks are held at Susan Rostow's Brooklyn Studio. For the Brooklyn Studio schedule, please visit: www.SusanRostow.com
I miss school. Not having to worry about anything in life and having the time to do art just because you want to.
Go back and pick up a class I always do!
Susan is a modern DaVinci ... artist and scientist ... i am his fanboy ... i have seen every video a thousand times and more ...
Your products and your lessons are just outstanding! Thanks ever so much!!
This is really interesting and very concise instructions. Thanks Susan
Thank you! We are glad you enjoyed the video.
Great video! Everything is explained clearly and thoroughly. Can't wait to purchase the supplies for the relief method.
Your work is exquisite.
Truly inspiring. For the prints you have hanging on the wall, did you make the blue background print first - monotype style or how did you make them in color?
Great video, I'm excided and interested in carborundum plate making, please do more videos. I would love to see carborundum printing with a pin press.
Hi Gene, To learn more about using the Pin Press in the video, Carborundum Mezzotype: Dark Field/Reductive Techniques, use this link: ruclips.net/video/_IGIInckkYk/видео.html
Thanks for this vídeo; it's a wonderfull thing to do prints with quality near to a real lithographic print, without the pain to prepare the lithographic Stone and all the rest of the complex process, included the Litho-press, it's a mayor words to any artist. Hope to see more videos like this, to show and experiment new ways to do prints in the schools where i teach graphics arts in Caracas Venezuela.
Thank you Moebius!
Thank you for the video, super interesting.
Unless your getting multiple prints. Why go through all this when you can just draw directly onto paper?
Absolutely love these informative videos by Susan! Questions: In the relief method is the first pencil used (before the litho pencil) a regular graphite one, and is the release agent rolled over the whole plate or just certain areas?
Thank you Frankie! The release agent is rolled over the entire plate. You may see the release agent if you only roll over certain areas, so it's best to roll over the entirety of the plate for uniformity.
How do you clean up the plate, that is remove dried carborundum gel from a plate? Is ts water or solvent soluble?
I live in the UK and have just started using carborundum gel just wonderful!
I am having problems locating a supplier for the acrylic medium you mention and demonstrate in the video and mix with the gel to achieve lighter and darker shades. I have tried searching the main print suppliers but have not been successful. Can you help?
Susan I can't wait to try this and I just LOVE the idea of using the wax as part of this process.
One important question - is regarding the Litho mimicking technique ......whether one will be able to make a small number of proofs ? Please will you respond to this. ?
The other point that I am wondering about is the cleaning of both of these plates?
PLEASE will you let us know about this ?
Huge thank you to you.........for sharing this research and developments with us.
Artists typically yield 3-5 prints before the pencils and crayons start to fully lift off the plate. Due do the way these plates are made, it is best not to clean them. Cleaning the plate will likely result in removing the drawn image.
When I use the brayer to apply the release agent ,should use the soft brayer or a harder one?
We recommend using a soft rubber brayer to apply the release agent.
Could you use the pin press for these techniques?
Would a black chinagraph pencil work in place of a litho pencil for the relief print?
I am not clear as to where in this video wax medium was applied?
The "wax medium" is the waxy pencils and litho crayons being used.
All of the drawing tools used in this video are wax-based, such as the candles, clear wax, white china markers, etc. These tools are broken down and explained at 8:12 in the video.
What's the durability of this process like? You mentioned a small editions, what are the possible ranges for large editions?
Very exciting question.
Each subsequent print will get slightly lighter, as the wax crayons, pencils, etc. will eventually fully lift off in the printing process as they are not permanently fixed on the plate. Artists typically yield an edition of 3-5 with this technique.
Is it feasable to go over the drawing between each print to enhance the tone of the wax which has been lost to get a larger edition ? Ghost avoidance technique. Many thanks. KC
Can the gel be removed and the clean plate reused or is this the end of the plate.
It is possible to remove the gel but it takes some extra work! You can scrape it off using a tool that will remove the gel but not dig into the plate.
Awesome, thanks!
thank you!
Why when I triesd using AKUA reales agent ,the printing paper always sticked to the images of the plate.I tried to adjust the press but it still came the same.
Try using less pressure and make sure the paper is not too damp! Both of those things can cause the paper to stick.
This might be an odd question, but have Y'all tried this Carborundum Gel with a Gelli plate? I'm wondering if i can use it like a re-usable lithography stone
We have not tried the gel with the gelli plates as I imagine the carborundum gel would not stick to the gelli plate. If you try it and have success, let us know!
Thanks for the clear instruction. Would this work without a press? i.e by baren, or wooden spoon / hand roller?
Thank you @Michael Kirkby! You can print certain types of Carborundum plates by hand with the Akua Pin Press. You can see this demonstrated in one of our other Carborundum videos here at 11:23 ruclips.net/video/_IGIInckkYk/видео.html
Thanks, I will give it a try.
I would just like to know whether these products can be bought in Eu continent?
You can locate a store near you on our website here: www.speedballart.com/find-a-store/
Is it possible to batch up coating plates, reusing the mesh a few times? Or do you need to start with a clean mesh for each plate?
I too would love to know if this would be OK?
As long as the gel is still fully wet, you can batch coat your plates. When the medium starts to thicken is when you'll need to just rinse your screen to unclog it and the you can resume.
Goid video. But all very well. If you have a press.
I can't hear anything. Is it just me?
The sound is fine. Please check your volume control on your device.
cool good to know, cause we all have huge printers and want to print pictures of sea slugs!
loll is that art or ?