Photo-Stencil Intaglio-Type

(See Non-Toxic Intaglio Type for overall description of this process)

An ImagOn Ultra laminated plate is exposed to light with transparencies from photocopiers or inkjet printers serving as the block-out to create the image. The transparency stencil can be made from a drawing, text, photograph, or combination. The photograph may be manipulated in PhotoShop to give different effects. One of Donna Adams’ prints in this exhibit was made to look like traditional mezzotint intaglio by applying a PhotoShop mezzotint filter. The image can be converted to a digital halftone prior to making the transparency.

Variations:
If the ImagOn Ultra laminated plate is first exposed with an aquatint screen, solid black areas on the stencil will be black on the print. If the ImagOn Ultra laminated plate is not exposed with an aquatint screen prior to being exposed with the transparency, the solid black areas on the stencil will print white with black edges. If the laminated plate is exposed to the aquatint screen at the same time as the transparency, black and white stencil areas will be reversed on the print.

• Emily Haag, Untitled, 2003 – purchase price: $125 - Layered Intaglio – Top Layer Reversed, Spit-Bite, Lift Off
• Justin Staller, Bedroom, 2526 Damian, 2004 – purchase price: $75 - Stenciled Soft Ground Intaglio
• Justin Staller, 11 S. 43rd St., 2004 – purchase price: $75 - Stenciled Soft Ground Intaglio
• Justin Staller, Find Denise, Kutztown Garage, 2004 – purchase price: $150 - Stenciled Soft Ground Intaglio
• Justin Staller, Rt. 100, Vermont, 2004 – purchase price: $150 - Stenciled Soft Ground Intaglio
• Bethany Meier, Support System III, 2003 – purchase price: $125 - Intaglio for Transparency Reversed by Exposure with Aquatint Screen, Scratched to Texturize, Screen Filler with Carborundum to Blacken, Screen Filler to Whiten, Thin Screen Filler to Soften Negative Areas