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A copper printing block that I found today, it looks like it has got damp at some point and someone has cleaned it up. Hard to hand burnish as it is 2cm x 10cm, and I tend to either smudge it on thick or tear the thinner paper. Oh for a small hand printing press!
After the surrender, Southern troops were issued safe-pass warrants to allow them to return home without further animosity.
At 13 meters high and weighing 90 tons, the S-Printing Horse in Heidelberg is one of the largest horse sculptures in the world.
At a time when the vast majority of stereoviews were black & white photographs mounted on cardboard, the T. W. Ingersoll Company published these brightly colored stereo images using a printing process like that used to reproduce photos in newspapers. Although the result is not as pleasing as beautifully hand colored photographs, Ingersoll stereoviews were inexpensive and very popular. Another advantage that is more apparent now, a century later, is that Ingersoll mounts remain flat whereas nearly all mounted photographs are annoyingly curled.
In the picture above, Grey Eagle, the chief, is shown at the right, his son Tomahawk to the left and his wife and youngest child in the opening to the lodge. Grey Eagle wears the full regalia of the chief, the war bonnet being remarkable for the beauty of the eagle feathers. The child in the wife’s arms is deprived of his usual carrying board by the fact that the family is away from home and the mother has extemporized a Sioux carrying bag. The shawl which is draped over her shoulders will, upon occasions, be deftly fashioned into a sack and the child placed upright therein. It is held just over one of the mother’s shoulders. Holding the fabric closely crossed over her breast, Mrs. Grey Eagle can carry the baby without great inconvenience for a long distance. [From the description on the back of the card]
Born an Oglala about 1850-54, Gray Eagle was among the northern or "non treaty" bands living away from the agencies by the 1870s. In the spring of 1872, Sitting Bull approached Gray Eagle about marrying his sister, Four Robes, an action that suggests that Gray Eagle's father had died by this time. That fall, Sitting Bull also married a second sister, Seen by the Nation, a widow with two sons. As a brother-in-law of Sitting Bull, Gray Eagle became closely aligned with the noted Hunkpapa headman.
Gray Eagle married a Hunkpapa woman named Deer Woman Tahca Winla (later known as Lizzie Gray Eagle) by about 1874(?). Gray Eagle appears to have joined the Hunkpapa about this time. In 1876, Gray Eagle, now about 22 years old, fought against the Army at the Battles of the Rosebud and at the Little Bighorn. During Sitting Bull's council with Colonel Miles, Gray Eagle was standing nearby, holding horses. He was among the Hunkpapa who fled across the boundary into Canada for more than 2 years. Gray Eagle later recalled that he and Low Dog, a rising northern Oglala leader, were good friends and that they decided to come in and surrender in advance of Sitting Bull and other Hunkpapa.
Gray Eagle is first listed in agency documents as a leader of his own band in November 1882. Agent James McLaughlin described Gray Eagle as "a man of determination and strong will power... an influential leader of his people." He was noted as one of the first of the northern Hunkpapa to adopt western dress. He served as a tribal judge and went to Washington, D.C. as a delegate from Standing Rock in 1888.
His relationship with his brother-in-law, Sitting Bull, has been open to debate. Gray Eagle said that their relationship began to deteriorate in the late 1880s when he was attempting to persuade Sitting Bull to abandon traditional ways and to not engage in the newly emerging Ghost Dance. "You go ahead and follow what white man says but for my part, leave me alone," Sitting Bull reportedly said. Gray Eagle warned Sitting Bull that his refusal to obey the Indian agent would cause trouble. "We have been friends for a long time," Gray Eagle replied, "but if you are not going to do as whites say, we will not be together any more."
There is considerable speculation as to why Gray Eagle accompanied the agency police to Sitting Bull's home that morning of December 15, 1890. Some have speculated that he had turned against his brother-in-law and had led the police there. Others suggest that he came to protect his sisters and their children. Gray Eagle himself said that he went to try and use his influence to convince Sitting Bull to come in to the Agency with the police as ordered. Tragically, during the struggle with the agency police, Sitting Bull and several family members were killed.
In the aftermath of Sitting Bull's death, his widows and children joined Gray Eagle's band and then, about 1892, transferred to the Pine Ridge Agency. Gray Eagle remained at Standing Rock as a vocal spokesman for his community. He died at Standing Rock on June 13, 1935. [Post by ephriam at American Tribes. Com. Read more: amertribes.proboards.com/thread/171#ixzz2nJ5smIHg]
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More test patterns. This time, they are all vectors. I'm going to spend some more time scaling them to different sizes, to see how that will effect each printing.
The printing press used for the course is the Adana, a tabletop press for hobbyists; this model was introduced in 1953.
Pulling down the handle moves the twin rollers up and over the inked disc; if a forme has been inserted then the rollers will transfer ink to the type on their way down. At the same time, the platen is moved up towards the forme. Thus, once the type has been inked, pulling the handle all the way will create an impression: the printed sheet.
www.facebook.com/studio318 Used a zip lock plastic bag to add printed elements to an abstract art journal page.
My first "Lumen Printing", ever. Without chemicals, only B&W photographic paper and the sunlight. The original to the left, the inverted to the right.
The BBC are printing this as a poster to use on the wall of their film studio during a live online event, all about butterflies, that they are streaming through their webcams this weekend (www.bbc.co.uk/nature/22371273).
They also want to use this photograph on their marbled white
website and Facebook page from Friday :)
I got up at 5am to take photographs of these dew covered roosting butterflies. Leave it any later and they move at rocket speed in this heat! So it was definitely worth the early start!
Make sure you do the Big Butterfly Count
The Ben Day process involved screens with raised dots or patterns that could be painted with ink or other media and then burnished onto prepared areas of an exposed zinc plate before etching, a photographic negative before exposing onto a prepared metal plate, or even onto artwork or ad material before it was photographed for the printing process. A complex and unique process, it appears in use from the late 1800s through the 1980s—maybe beyond in specialized industries or printing plants that didn't update.
On this page, a standard form of the device is shown with details about what tints and patterns are available. It appears to be from
The page shows at the bottom the printed results of applying 40 patterns to photographic negatives before etching and then printing. Compare No. 532 on this page with the identical No. 532 in the next image in this sequence. A 20% tint applied as a layer of pigment to a negative means that 20% of the exposed area is opaqued out, leaving 80% clear. When exposed onto a photosensitized plate, the clear areas harden. During etching, only the unexposed portions wash away. As a result, the relief plate used directly for printing (or through duplication in the stereotype mold/plate method) have 80% of the area covered in tint.
From Graphic Arts Production Yearbook, Volume 6 (1950)
In my studio hangs a strikeoff of all the colours used for Skinny laMinx printing in the past few years. It's so pretty to look at.
view light box and full screen
the room at the top of the house which was my office for 10 years has changed recently into a room of my own. I have given away my drawing board and many of my gardening books to a young garden designer friend who is starting out with her own business. Along one wall of my room I have three bookcases pushed together which form a long open shelf along the top - upon which 'stuff' accumulates and is moved about in a happy, not very neat everyday existence. I have decided to photograph the things on the shelf from time to time exactly as they are - with no attempt to make them into a still life. This is a little section of the shelf with printing blocks.
Michael Seidmann gave me the idea of the word serendipity by using serendipitous in a recent comment and Harris Hui has reminded me, by asking me whether I have one, that my 105mm lens is under used. Thanks.
Screen Printing Posters for this years End of the Road Festival.
Charlie Parr End result
All posters will be available at End of the Road Festival on the Jacknife stall and also on the Jacknife website:
Printed in a dark stained blue on Ivory Somerset paper. The natural woodgrain textures from block's surface pepper atmospheric dashes alongside crisply cut star shapes. (I expect than anyone that appreciates the wabi sabi look of time-faded denim will find much to enjoy in this print. The block's surface is printed very uniformly; the gentle wood striations add an unexpected and very pleasant element to the design, while also very clearly linking the prints to the matrix)
Prints are 18" x 23". Pre-order through just after Thanksgiving & then price will go up to $225.
I did eventually manage to finish the printing frame. It works well, and is a nice addition to my toolset. I think I ought to see about replacing the felt on the hinged back, though, as the original stuff is pretty well shot.
East Lansing resident Arie Koelewyn adjusts the spacing between letters after a test run on the printing press on Sept. 29, 2016 in the art studio at Snyder Hall.