Met with Katharine, Serena and Nina - we have decided to hold an exhibition of our lithography work so far charting our progress - opening November 11th - December 23rd at the LCB depot in Leicester. So that's exciting ! Slightly worried re the lack of work that I've got to display compared to my fellow fellow Nina but I'm sure it will be fine! We visited the exhibition space on the way back to the station - its superb - not too big and really light.
Gallery space at LCB
Blog 22/9/15 and 23/9/2015
After seeing the space Nina started to work on a stone to make a poster to advertise the event
The stone was left to rest overnight and the next day we printed it up
I also prepared 2 photo litho plates for my park hill stone as a means of adding colour to the prints- sky, concrete balustrades and windows were traced from one of the prints that I had already taken onto 2 large sheets of draughting paper using black marker pen and acrylic paint. In the dark room the draughting paper was attached to 2 separate photolithography plates using scotch tape - they were then transferred to the photoexposure machine and exposed for 12 units. The exposed plates were then taken back to the dark room, the draughting sheets were removed and the plates dampened with developing solution for 3 minutes until the image started to appear. The plates were then washed with water and dried . Gum Arabic solution was then placed thinly on each plate and then dried with a hair dryer. Each plate was then protected with a layer of tissue paper so that they wouldn't get scratched.
Here are the plates - unfortunately there wasnt enough time to print from them so thats for another time (in about 6 weeks!) as Leicester Print Workshop is moving premises and will be until November 4th.
Photo litho plates produced (which can be inked as a monoprint to add colour tints to existing prints - top one will add colour the concrete balustrade areas, the bottom one will add colour in areas of the windows and sky (images reversed but will be the right way round when printed)
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