Intaglio Impressions
Your Goal:
Create a thought provoking intaglio print using the modern methods and technology of Solarplates and Adobe Photoshop.
Demonstrate your understanding of the Big Ideas:
Considerations:
Instructions:
Document size 18.25" x 24.25" @ 300 dpi
Collage images together in Photoshop using layer masks to create a thought provoking image.
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 thought provoking intaglio print using the modern methods and technology of Solarplates and Adobe Photoshop.
Demonstrate your understanding of the Big Ideas:
- An artist’s intention transforms materials into art.
- Graphic arts contribute to culture and reveal insights into the human experience.
- Refining artistic expression requires perseverance, resilience, and risk taking.
- Purposeful artistic choices enhance the depth and meaning of graphic artworks.
- Aesthetic experiences have the power to change our perspective.
Considerations:
- Theme
- Send a message to the viewer
- Complexity of your image creation
- Center of Interest, Balance, Unity
- Colour vs. Black
Instructions:
Document size 18.25" x 24.25" @ 300 dpi
Collage images together in Photoshop using layer masks to create a thought provoking image.
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
Putker demonstrates creative use of Photoshop to juxtapose various images into a unified, seamless composition in his Solarplate prints.
Putker demonstrates creative use of Photoshop to juxtapose various images into a unified, seamless composition in his Solarplate prints.
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/ |
How to Combine Imagery Seamlessly
Layer Masks in Photoshop
Introductory Tutorial Video and Layer Mask Cheat Sheet >>> |
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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)