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Positive plates for photographs, etc
4 July 2009
There are several products out there in the marketplace for the printmaker: positive plates, negative plates, etc. I spent a week at Skidmore with Kate Leavitt and learned to use Solarplates and fell in love with them. The selling points were ease of use and the fact that the developer was water! As a printmaker trying to stay in the non-toxic realm, this was wonderful. (By the way, I don't sell these plates, but Dan Welden of Hampton Editions does and he's a great guy..call 516-725-3990 for info). The plates are exposed by UV light and can even be brought outside on a sunny day and exposed that way. The down side of that is that the strength of the sunlight varies day by day, hour by hour, season by season so you would have to do test strips every time to make sure you have the proper exposure.
- Gay Malin http://gallery.passion4art.com/members/gaymalin
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