Was it difficult working with paper, pulp or mylar?
Before I started at STPI I had not worked on paper for almost ten years, so I decided to keep my focus simple; and to use circles as the unifying theme of my prints and pulp-paper pieces. The change in medium from canvas to hand-made paper was the biggest challenge. When I first presented my circle drawings to the printers, we spent endless hours discussing and working on each drawing and discussing whether to use lithography, intaglio, collagraph, relief or silkscreen. After deciding on the technical aspects of the print, like the size and shape of the paper, the color of the pulp to be used, the printmaking techniques to be applied and the materials to be added to the print, then the real work began. When we used lithography, I painted each color directly onto a clear plastic sheet called a mylar. This was my first introduction to mylar and at first it seemed strange, but eventually I got used to seeing my drawings through the many layers of plastic, which were later transferred on t
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