John Tollett drew live from the same session, while I drew on Zoom from the laptop.
PRINT
On May 18th, I experimented with the LaserPecker 2 by engraving my drawing into LINOLEUM. I downloaded the first figure in this blog post and imported that into the LaserPecker 2 app, where I edited the image. The debris/dots were more of an artifact of editing in the app. The app cropped the image and I engraved it 100mm high.
Engraving with the LaserPecker 2
at Quelab
In only five minutes the laser engraver copied my drawing onto the linoleum, but the 10% depth might have engraved deeper than I wanted. The idea is to hand carve the laser transferred image:
- Material "wood," Power "100%," Depth "10%," Pass "1," Time "5 minutes"
5 minute: OUTLINE
Image transferred in order to hand carve
The 30% Depth took over ten minutes to engrave, and the cuts were somewhat deep. Maybe this would make a good intaglio print, or even a decent inverse relief print.
- Mode "pencil," Material "custom (wood)," Power "100%," Depth "30%," Pass "1," Time "10:20"
Ten minute: ~PRINTABLE
This might print
a reverse image
(white lines on black background)
The print from the above linocut
(made on May 19th)
- Material "custom (wood)," Power "100%," Depth "30%," Pass "1," Time "65:12"
Hour: WORTHLESS
After I inverted the image,
the lines were too thin
and the cut was too shallow
to make a good relief print
I probably would have done better had I edited and cleaned up the image before importing it into the Laserpecker 2 app. Also there must be a way to import a vector SVG file to make the cutting a lot faster.
Burning the image into PAPER wasn't so successful:
- Mode "pencil," Material "recycled paper," Power "100%," Depth "10%," Pass "1," Time "5"
I could probably burn a better image into paper
Note: Choosing "Grey" did not work on the paper, though I didn't play around with the settings much
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