"Standing Wood" - a solar plate print by Mike Clements
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Title |
Medium |
Edition |
Price |
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"Standing Wood" |
Solar plate (photopolymer) print |
Ed.5, 138 x 186mm |
Framed £65 |
A solar plate made using the single exposure intaglio method. Exposed for
4 minutes on a bright, sunny late Winter day.
Drawn on True Grain film, using a variety of pens, pencil, charcoal & graphite.
The semi-opaque textures of the pencil, charcoal and graphite created little more than roughness on the photopolymer surface. Yet these retained sufficient ink to print a light, broken grey, contrasting with the heavier blacks of the ink lines. The heaviest areas (e.g. the edges ot the wooden planks) were cross-hatched
Some areas of the plate washed out more than I had originally intended. Serendipity decided that these areas should be where highlights might reasonably be expected!