Card cut intaglio print no.2

I cut a template printing plate using picture mounting board, gradually peeling off the top coloured layer to reveal the white beneath.

Then I used a roller and watercolour as a printing medium, applied a thin layer and allowed some of the paint to catch the white (can produce a textured effect).

A note to newcomers to printing … Remember that whatever picture you want to end up with will be the mirror image of the printing plate. Have fun 🙂

card ‘intaglio’ printing

Just for fun, I used some picture board card, drew out a basic outline of some woodland trees and a rabbit sitting on a swing at night.

If you’d like to try this yourself, simply score around the outline edge and peel off the top coloured layer of the picture board.

as you can see by this photograph, the creamy white layer is now showing as I peeled off the red.

I then rollered the block printing ink onto the surface and it caught some of the creamy backing.  If you don’t want this texture to appear, you will need to peel more of the underneath away.  I applied a wash of coffee to the trees and Beryl fibre tip pens for the other colours.

 

As this was the first print pull, I will adjust the background colours between the trees so that there is more blue showing.