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| ©2020 Barry Smith - Collagraph prints from my earlier urban series. |
I have decided to do a series of A3 posters that, in general terms, reflect messages posted or grafitti on walls. I want to do letterpress over collagraph prints that are based on worn urban walls. The inspiration for this came from collagraphs that I did a few years ago that I referred to as an industrial-urban series. The opening photo is of some of those earlier prints.
The planning started with a cup of coffee and a Tim Tam whilst reading some books on poster prints.
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| ©2020 Barry Smith - Table and chairs in our new letterpress studio |
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| ©2020 Barry Smith - Inspiration |
The text of my first poster will focus on hope in dark times.
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| ©2020 Barry Smith - Fiona is trying to teach me the good habit of documenting what I do |
The collagraph will be based on a photo I took in 2013 with my iPhone.
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| ©2020 Barry Smith - Love the textures and colours |
A few of the process photos follow.
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| ©2020 Barry Smith - Building up the collagraph |
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| ©2020 Barry Smith - Shellacing the base board - flaky shellac gives extra texture and I'm trying to get shellac along the edges of the card to create shadows |
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| ©2020 Barry Smith - You can see I have used braille paper to give an added industrial texture |
There is still a long way to go with this; but we will see how it progresses and then prints.
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