Started a new small stone -with a view to possibly entering it into the Leicester Print workshop Small Print International . This competition invites entries of prints that have an image area of less than 100cm2 printed on paper less than 500cm2. (Further details can be found at www.leicesterprintworkshop.com)
I thought I'd have a go at submitting a stone lithograph - (which could be problematic on two counts)
1. The deadline is in less than 3 weeks time (!)
2. I am used to working on quite a large scale with the stone lithographs and so to work to such a small size will be challenging to say the least - (however after nearly a year of trying to get my head round stone lithography I am used to a challenge...!)
I decided to use one of the small graining stones that we use to clean off the images from the larger stones.
I used litho ink diluted with turps for the dense black areas - rubbing block and litho crayons for the mid tone areas. The speckled areas were created by dusting shavings from a sharpened litho crayon on to the stone then warming the area with a hair dryer and burnishing them with the back of a spoon under newsprint - not sure how they will print!
Here's where Im up to with it so far - (still got some more fine lines and detail to add in yet).
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