Using tetra plates for printmaking is a great way to re-use a throwaway item. Starting with a drawing, we indicate several ways to transfer the image to the foil side of the tetra pack. Using a sharp instrument like an awl, we scratch the lines of the drawing into the foil.
In the meantime, we prepare the paper for forthcoming prints and enclose them in a plastic bag to keep them moist; then proceed to ink the plate and remove it in stages. We sandwich the plate and wet paper between newsprint and craft foam cut to the size of the pasta machine. We run the print through a pasta machine in place of an etching press.
Next, we change gears and place the cleaned tetra pack plate on an inked gell plate and pull a print and its ghost print: noting the the difference in that type of print and the intaglio one.
Finally, we repeat the inking process on the plate with oil-based ink and note the difference in the prints of the two mediums.
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Chapters:
0:00 Opening titles
0:17 Intro
3:10 Transferring an image to the tetra pack material
4:25 Demonstrating how to scratch-in the image
6:42 Prepping our printmaking paper
7:41 Inking the dry-point plate with water based printmaking ink
10:06 Removing the excess ink
17:30 Final touch-ups using cotton buds
19:36 Pressing the print with our pasta-maker
21:26 An experiment with the gell plate
26:38 A second try with the gell plate
30:29 Inking the dry-point plate with oil-based printmaking ink, removing excess
39:47 Pressing the print with our pasta-maker
41:19 Outro
43:07 Today's prints and closing titles
Original music by The Manitou: themanitou.bandcamp.com
Filmed and edited by Joshua Blanc and Sybille Muschik
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