Saturday, February 7, 2009

colour litho tip etc

Here's a tip if you screw up while printing colour off a litho stone. If you forgot to wash out the ink when saving the stone for another day to continue printing, if it's not too late you can use lacquer thinner instead of lithotine to get it out. But use really good ventilation or a mask because it evaporates so fast and is so toxic!
In general:
- don't forget to rub in your colour ink with a little lithotine instead of asphaltum when at the press ready to print
- Afterwards, use water and kimwipes to wash off the gum/extra ink and do it quickly because the water might burn away your drawing. Then do a few fast passes.
Tomorrow I'll try to get my ass into school and do the second etch of my stone. Maybe I'll include a picture of it so far.

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