conquistadors - status report
May. 29th, 2001 06:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saint_monkeyi've just finished the fifteen 3" x 3" image plates (scans to follow hopefully!) Each involved an hour's etch ifor the original line, plus three separate etches each for aquatints. I've been at this for about a week, with a grand total of about 40 hours with plates in acid... that's a lot, really it is.
But i'm over the hump now, with one week remaining in the quarter i might add.
Also today i cut all my paper into 5 x 20" strips, and I made the "marbled" end papers. If you've ever picked up an old library book from 1900 or so, you'll notice a nice flecked and wavy decorative paper on the end pages where they glued the book's "Due" card envelopes. This old method of decorating paper comes from the resistance of water and oil. You get a thin oil based ink or paint, and pour it into a flat tray of water. Since they resist, the oil will form beads and waves, and spread out across the surface of the water. It won't mix in, just fragment into smaller beads of color.
No, by then pressing or passing a clean paper through the water, you can then transfer the ink to the paper in it's nice wavy pattern.
Tomorrow I'll "proof" the plates to ensure that the images look right, if they do, i'll begin printing.
All that will remain then is to wait for the images to dry, create a "dummy" book to see which text alligns with each image (it isn't intuitive, books are made in signatures with four or five pages nested inside each other, so an image for one page may actually end up printed with the text for an image yet to come.) Then I must laser print the text, assemble the books, sew and glue them together, and depending upon the time, make the hard "portfolio" cover.
But i'm over the hump now, with one week remaining in the quarter i might add.
Also today i cut all my paper into 5 x 20" strips, and I made the "marbled" end papers. If you've ever picked up an old library book from 1900 or so, you'll notice a nice flecked and wavy decorative paper on the end pages where they glued the book's "Due" card envelopes. This old method of decorating paper comes from the resistance of water and oil. You get a thin oil based ink or paint, and pour it into a flat tray of water. Since they resist, the oil will form beads and waves, and spread out across the surface of the water. It won't mix in, just fragment into smaller beads of color.
No, by then pressing or passing a clean paper through the water, you can then transfer the ink to the paper in it's nice wavy pattern.
Tomorrow I'll "proof" the plates to ensure that the images look right, if they do, i'll begin printing.
All that will remain then is to wait for the images to dry, create a "dummy" book to see which text alligns with each image (it isn't intuitive, books are made in signatures with four or five pages nested inside each other, so an image for one page may actually end up printed with the text for an image yet to come.) Then I must laser print the text, assemble the books, sew and glue them together, and depending upon the time, make the hard "portfolio" cover.
