PRINTS
Cassandra made a single celebrity cut on the BIG INK print:
Cassandra making a celebrity cut
STAMPING FOAM
We transferred a linocut image into Stamping Foam again, like we did on June 22, 2023:
Linocut transferred into Stamping Foam
Virgil heating the stamping foam
with a heat gun
This transferred worked well,
though the image was not clear to begin with
Print and inked Stamping Foam
The first print
Thin sticky ink seems to work best. I left the ink out for a day the last time we tried Stamping Foam, and that worked really well.
Also we need to think about the image. Like linocuts, the best images probably have a fairly even distribution of black and white throughout the composition (unlike with the figure image above on our first try).
Plus the linocut has to be a "negative" image, as that will transfer into a "positive" into the Stamping Foam. The linocut image also has to be "flipped horizontally."
If done properly, the Stamping Foam will accept and print very fine textures from the linocut...and might even print better than using a press.
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