Bloom / Patreon Experimental Print Club / 1st edition, April 2016

Great to be back in the studio after a week away with the kids for the school holidays. Ros Ford, who is collaborating on this first edition with me, has also recently returned from her travels in southern Italy.

We're looking forward to inking up the copper plate we completed a few weeks back, and actually printing the first edition - Bloom - at BV Studios this week. After a certain amount of trial and error, we've chosen to use a digital bitmap of the original drawing at 500 ppi, transferred to the copper etching plate using a laminated photopolymer film, exposed with an aquatint screen. All good stuff. There are just a very few decisions left to be made about the exact hue of the black ink, which is likely to be fairly warm.

So I'm hoping to be able to send out the completed etching to the members of my Print Club shortly, and I'll look forward to posting a few more images of the work being editioned on Ros' etching press.

If you’d like to know more about the Print club, there’s a link to my Patreon pages here https://www.patreon.com/Chuck_Elliott

Best regards - Chuck

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Links:

Ros Ford's website is here - http://ros-ford.co.uk

BV Studio is online here - http://www.bvstudios.co.uk