Digigraphic Printmaking Process
Littleton Studios, Spruce Pine, N.C., 1998

"Miss Mollie"
24 x 30 inches (61 x 76 cm)
© Dorothy Simpson Krause 1998

 

The base image for "Miss Mollie" was a two page spread scanned from a 1859 floral album, a memory book of Mary Harvey, Harvey Littleton's aunt.

It was overlayed with scanned images of an oval flower medallion from another page in the book and a photograph of "someone's aunt" found at a flea market.The final part of the image was a patina scanned from the book to give an overall tone to the digital file.

Using the 3M Cactus RIP, the digital file was flipped horizontlly and printed on Encad's clear film with graphic outdoor (GO) ink.

 

 

Using a waterless planographic process Littleton pioneered, Krause created a landscape by painting with waterbased media on a glass plate. The painting on glass was masked with silicon and cured.

The image on clear film was transferred to 30"x36" damp Rives BFK using a 40"x70" French Tool etching press. In a second pass, the vitriographic plate was inked with a pale blue grey ink and printed over the digital transfer or digigraph.

From a suite entitled "heARTland", including pieces by Krause, Karin Schminke and Bonny Lhotka, published by Littleton Studio.