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Ned-No-D In reply to brendansatria [2011-05-20 19:09:04 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I love dry point. It's so much fun and meditative for me, and considering how clumsy I am with gouges, it's a safer technique for me... I love your woodblocks because they are the awesome.

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brendansatria In reply to Ned-No-D [2011-05-20 21:24:27 +0000 UTC]

thanks again, i think dry point is your strength.actually your line character..i can see at your drawing too..great!!

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Ned-No-D In reply to sandersblack [2011-01-23 18:45:44 +0000 UTC]

From the plexi plates? Anywhere from 6-15 good pulls depending on how well I treat my plate. I had one plexi plate I only got 2 pulls from because of many reasons and I was extremely heartbroken over. There was a freshman student in the room during my printing hour and they went behind my back and reset the press for a nickel plate etching while I was inking my print. Stupid me assuming that the press is still on my settings (Something that's not hard to do when you turn around and you're the only one in the room)I just rolled my print only to put a giant crack down the middle of the plate. Needless to say when the kid came back into the room I was fuming because it is customary in the printing room to notify who ever is currently scheduled for the press that A: you would like to run a quick print and B: that you have changed the settings and C: IF you change the settings without notifying who ever is using the press you don't run to the bathroom real quick after being a ninja and resetting the press.

Thankfully, this print was not mangled and I got 6 real good pulls from it (It's pretty large, I hate wiping large plates)

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Ned-No-D In reply to sandersblack [2011-01-23 18:50:54 +0000 UTC]

It's actually quite nice. You can just draw out your image, tape it to the back and just go from there. You can see what you're working on without drawing directly onto the plate, you can get a giant sheet for relatively cheap at a hardware store, it's easier to cut to size, to bevel, and it's really freaking cool looking when you scratch your image onto it (I almost feel bad printing it because the plates look so dang cool pre-printing). The down side is that the burr tends to press down more quickly, so you cannot get as many pulls as from a copper plate, you cannot use certain chemicals for cleaning because it will ruin your plate and make it more prone to cracking, and you have to have your edges perfectly beveled and even or you may risk cracking your plate. So it's a cost saving and is much more "home friendly" when working on it, but for what you save in convenience you loose in quantity and strength.

Personally, I don't like making a huge edition of my prints, so I like it just enough.

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Ned-No-D In reply to fandina [2010-12-16 22:35:38 +0000 UTC]

the plate was 10" x 16". Thanks for the compliment! ^_^

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Ned-No-D In reply to KajetanGizinski [2010-12-16 14:52:56 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I loved that plate and scratched away in a meditative state on it. The people at the coffee shop were fascinated with the plate and the final print.

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Ned-No-D In reply to paranoidonion [2010-12-16 08:08:04 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! The scan turned out much better than the photograph, but still leaves much to be desired.

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paranoidonion In reply to Ned-No-D [2010-12-16 08:09:10 +0000 UTC]

Did you use pen?

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Ned-No-D In reply to paranoidonion [2010-12-16 08:31:41 +0000 UTC]

Nah, it's a printmaking technique. I scratched this onto some plexi glass and then rolled it with ink and printed it. It started with a picture of my feet then I drew the picture. After drawing the picture (in pencil) I then scratched it onto my plexi plate. The total project probably took somewhere close to 16 hours.

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paranoidonion In reply to Ned-No-D [2010-12-16 08:39:05 +0000 UTC]

Well it looks really awesome. I love the line work. Printmaking was always something I envied.

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Ned-No-D In reply to paranoidonion [2010-12-16 14:59:50 +0000 UTC]

Give it a whirl! Take some classes or look some of it up on the web webs on how to... if anything it will be something interesting and possibly fun to try out. I never knew I loved printmaking as much as I did until my friend (who is a printmaking professor) basically begged me to take a class and it was love at first edition. I feel it finalized my drawings. I loved doing pen drawings and pencil sketches because of the tight control I can have and I love cross hatching... but no matter what I did with them they never felt completed. After the first round of screen printing I fell in love. After the dry point and etching classes I was utterly enamored with the technique. I was able to make multiples of one image without a computer... and being as against digital art I am (sorry if I offend anyone, there is some awesome stuff out there, but there is some awful stuff too) I felt that it was the route I was supposed to go. My husband jokes that I'm not analog, I'm draconian.

I just really like the feel, the depth of the ink, the richness, and if I run it though a press I love the embossing (tactile people cannot avoid touching textured prints), I love the smell of the inks, I love the big honkin' press, I love the tools, I love the risk, I love it all. ^_^

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