SF&F Picture 7 out of 8 by Crystal Lynn LaBranche.

SciFi and Fantasy Art: Jack in the Green

This is a Green Man piece I did in Intaglio. The boring technical info is below. I did not draw this but rather arranged the leaves to create the picture. The project was fun but nature is the real artist in this one. Green ink on paper.

Intaglio uses metal plates to transfer a repeatable image onto paper when run through a printing press. (Lithography uses stones (for the most part) instead of metal plates.) The plates are either carved into with a sharp pointed object or a less direct method of acid baths are used. This technique in intaglio used on my Green Man lets you put a thin layer of what is basically watery tar on the plate. You let it dry and then place objects with a certain texture you want to capture onto the plate (think of lace or in my case:leaves). You run the object and the plate through the printing press and the tar sticks to the raised surface of the object you placed on the plate. Peel off the objects and you are left with a tarry plate with lines taken out of it. The tar blocks the acid, but where your object was pressed into the plate, there is no protection and the metal gets eaten away. You then rub ink into the grooves, put paper on the plate and run it through the printing press again. The ink gets transfered to the paper and there you go: a giant stamp has been created. The technique has a name but I've quite forgotten it--if anyone can supply me with it I would much appreciate the info.


	Categories: [Angels, Religious, Spiritual, Holy] [Head or Facial Study] [Landscape, Nature, Panoramic] [Mythical Creatures & Assorted Monsters] [European Traditions, Mythology] Techniques: [Oil Paint] [Other]

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SciFi and Fantasy Art: Jack in the Green