My friend Sandra Golbert, a fiber artist, gave me 2 primitive wooden relief stamps. I knew I wanted to use them for today’s print. I love them. I was not sure how I wanted to use them, so I just started inking and stamping to see what would happen.
Well even though I had nice thin and even layer of ink and used a padded printing surface the ink did not transfer evenly. You can see those marks in the blue image above, so I grabbed a glycerin and gelatin plate and started printing on the plate.
The water in the plate and the water in the ink and the malleability of the plate all work together to release the ink from the tool on to the plate and then on to the paper.
Today I used 2 methods of printing without a press, relief printing and the planographic process with the glycerin plate.
Here’s today’s print for make a print a day in May.
