Solarplate Surrealism
Your Goal:
Create a Surrealist juxtaposition of traditional intaglio prints using modern methods and technology such as Solarplates and Adobe Photoshop.
Document size 18.25" x 24.25" @ 300 dpi
Collage images together in Photoshop using layer masks to create a dream-like scene.
Convert to greyscale using an adjustment layer - adjust for a full tonal range of black to white
Resize image to 6.25" x 8.25" (the extra 0.25" will allow some wiggle room for placement on the plate)
Print to film in order to expose to a Solarplate (photopolymer plate) on the UV light table.
Print an edition of minimum 5 prints using the intaglio method.
Create a Surrealist juxtaposition of traditional intaglio prints using modern methods and technology such as Solarplates and Adobe Photoshop.
Document size 18.25" x 24.25" @ 300 dpi
Collage images together in Photoshop using layer masks to create a dream-like scene.
Convert to greyscale using an adjustment layer - adjust for a full tonal range of black to white
Resize image to 6.25" x 8.25" (the extra 0.25" will allow some wiggle room for placement on the plate)
Print to film in order to expose to a Solarplate (photopolymer plate) on the UV light table.
Print an edition of minimum 5 prints using the intaglio method.
Intaglio (in-tahl-yoh)
The family of printing and printmaking techniques in which the image is incised into a surface and the incised line or sunken area holds the ink. It is the direct opposite of a relief print.
Artist Jaco Putker
Explore the Instagram page of Jaco Putker
View web portflio at https://www.jacoputker.com/ Article on his work: www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/10/dually-playful-and-sinister-solarplate-etchings-by-jaco-putker/ |
What is Surrealism?
sur·re·al·ism
/səˈrēəˌlizəm/
noun
/səˈrēəˌlizəm/
noun
- a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images
What are Solarplates?
Printmaking with SOLARPLATE is a simple approach and safer alternative to traditional etching and relief printing. A Solarplate is a prepared, light-sensitive polymer surface on a steel backing for artists to produce fine prints. Since Dan Welden’s development of the process in the 1970s, printmakers, painters, photographers, and art teachers interested in multiple impressions have found printmaking with SOLARPLATE an exciting adventure. All one needs is inspiration, a graphic image created on a transparent film (acetate or glass), sun or UV light, and ordinary tap water, and the process is ready to begin. Both positives and negatives can be utilized; intaglio and relief printing techniques can be applied. (solarplate.com)