Film-backed solar plate prints by Inge Wright
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Solar plate (photopolymer) print |
118 x 157mm |
Plastotype WF95 is a plastic film-backed photopolymer plate that has to be glued to a rigid backing after exposure, because it curls. Mount card is a suitable backing.
One advantage of the film-backing is that effects similar to double exposure techniques can be achieved without using an aquatint screen. The back of the film is given a short (½-1min) initial exposure and then turned over for a single exposure using the transparency.
Inge scanned one of her own water-colour drawings and manipulated it using Photoshop before out-putting on to inkjet transparency.
The plate needed 4mins exposure in overcast conditions at mid-day in late Spring. Washout was 3 mins.
The plate was inked intaglio with black oil-based ink and then rolled lightly with a pale blue relief ink.