Further to my research on artist katja Lang I had a go at dry point printing. I sourced some materials online: three sharp drawing tools of varying sizes to make marks and I ordered some transparent plastic plates, these work well if you have a detailed design you can then directly work it onto your plate without having to trace it on first.
The main difference to lino print is lino if relief print and dry point is intergo technique that traps the ink withing the marks that you make rather that with what you leave behind.
Below are two graphite rubbings that I lifted directly from the tourist information board at the viaduct, one is an image of part of a technical drawing of the viaduct. The second is a map of the Erewash area.
Both the images are quite technical so its good to be able to mark directly onto the plate.
It changes the quality of the line. The original board is already change when lifted in the graphite rubbing, changed again in a dry point print, like Chinese whispers of mark making. I like to reproduce the same image in different mediums and see how these mediums change the feeling and language of those marks. In practical terms, this was a good, quick way to make an overlay print without having a lot of material to carve away as I had to do with the lino map- that was quite laborious.
In this case I printed it with a blue ink. this is to represent a blue print of an architects plan rather that a life like image as this also fits in with the aesthetics of structure and looking at the ways structure is visually represents, via technical drawings, blue prints, maps and photographs and trying to incorporate these elements into my print work.
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