Category Archives: Experimentation
Electrotyped Cast of a Workbench
As part of the Wrexham Print Centres Harts heath Project I have made an electrotyped plate of a workbench that was estimated as being first used in the early nineteenth century. Unfortunately I was only able to take an impression from a small part of it before the bench was removed to a museum. The image on the left is the reverse of the plate which is still attached to the mould and on the right is the part of the bench from which the impression was taken from.
Electrolysis use in ceramic art
Copper & Corrosion
Frances Carlile’s Sculpture
Picture from Frances of the second piece of hers that we plated on Friday 11th.
Working with Frances Carlile
Electro-forming some sculptures made by Frances Carlile from blackthorn branches.
Photograph shows one of Frances’s pieces ‘Breakwater’ standing on a piece of mine entitled ‘Tide’ Really fun creative day.
Print from stereotype plate
This is one of the first prints off the stereotyped plate from earlier entries in my research blog. The plate was inked up using Hayter’s viscosity method, the second colour being silver, the first being cadmium yellow deep hue . The plate is very heavily embossed, it has been through the press about twenty times and is holding out well and will certainly be good for a large edition if it was required.