Creative Explosion

Here's a sneak peek at what you can expect from Leah MacDonald's Encaustic Workshop ~ Experiments in Papers, Scale & these lovely incredible * WAX BOOKS * This workshop will focus on experimenting with different papers, scale and making these delicate little books

Coming this JULY 2014 

Psst...you're one of the first to know, registration for this class is now open! Find out more + here

Learn to Make a Hard Cover Book is back

Spring Workshops are coming.... Here's one, you may be interested in ? 

* LEARN TO MAKE A HARD COVER BOOK  // SATURDAY APRIL-5

Photopolymer Gravure Printing

With all the teaching that we do, we don’t get many days to work on our own projects, but every now and then we bolt the studio door, turn off the phone, roll up our sleeves and get some of our own work done.

This week we had just such a day.

We pulled a photograph from my archive, a landscape image made while working on assignment for British Columbia magazine near Cache Creek, BC several years ago, and made a photopolymer gravure print.

This is how I had always envisioned printing this image so with a clear day on the calendar I finally had my chance so Diana and I set to work.

Here’s a little behind the scenes look at the process.

Output digital positive from scanned film of digital image.

Expose the plate in our NuArc UV exposure unit.

Remove excess ink and polish the plate.

Plate ready for the press.

Re-ink the plate for a final print.

Final touches on the plate make a big difference to the tones in the print.

Finished print. An 8x10 photopolymer gravure print.

We offer workshops, private tuition on photopolymer gravure printing along with a full range of services from digital positive film output to plate making and custom printing.

Check our website for details or contact us at the studio for more information.

Rough cuts - the romantic image

We are still working on collecting images from last weekends Romantic Image: Portraits and Fashion in Wet Plate. Here are some rough cuts from behind-the-scenes to give you a taste of what's to come...

Thanks to an enthusiastic group of students and models (who even stood frozen outside for long exposures) & an inspiring team of stylists led by Lia Crowe.

FULL REPORT SOON  

even Molly got into styling her own shoots...