Wow – what a great workshop this weekend at Aurobora Press. This was the second of five weekend workshops between June and October with Master Printer Deb Sibony. My goal in the work this weekend was to take pieces I had made in Photoshop back in February and recreate them as prints. The Photoshop process is, to me, the electronic equivalent of printmaking. I can take layers in Photoshop and fiddle with the opacity and put them under and over other layers and images.
This is the image I made in February, called K-Bessel Function in Terms of the Confluent Hypergeometric Function:
I am elated to have finally learned chine colle and the xerox transfer method of transferring images to the paper. I worked with pages from an old book called Analysis of Ancient Mythology that was published in 1807 – yes 202 years ago! The book was published in quarto style, meaning that four pages, front and back, were printed at one time, then folded to make a quarto. Twenty-seven of these quartos made up the entire book (27×4 pages). Interestingly, the copy I purchased did not have the tops of the pages split, so the book was unreadable. I unbound the book and spread the pages out to make beautiful, printed on paper which I will use for art.
Some of these I used today for chine colle to the paper. I’ll post photos of that work tomorrow, when the light is better.
For now, here is a print I made using the xerox transfer method. We also found the cafe that serves the fabulous turkey sandwiches with cranberry sauce called HRD Coffee Shop. The cafe has been there for 47 years and takes its name from Human Resource Development because it was across the street from the Social Security Administration offices at one time and was where anyone who needed to get back into the workforce was directed.