Digigraphic
Printmaking
Process
Littleton
Studio,
Spruce
Pine,
North
Carolina,
1998
"Thunder
Cloud"
x
inches
(
x
cm)
© ©Bonny
Lhotka
1997
An
old
faded
umbrella
with
patterns
created
by
sun
bleaching
became
the
base
for
this
image.
It
was
photographed
with
Littleton's
digital
camera
and
combined
with
scanned
paint
chips
from
Lhotka's
studio.
Composed
on
the
Intergraph,
the
image
was
RIPed
with
3M
Cactus
rip
to
the
Encad
Novajet
Pro,
printed
on
film
and
transfered
to
wet
etched
glass.
The
glass
image
was
then
photographed
to
become
the
sun
element.
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A siligraphy glass plate was made for the cloud and photographed for layering in Photoshop as well as for the second layer of printing as a planographic process in the etching press.The umbrella image is printed on Encad QIS flim and tested for positioning over a print of the siligraphy plate. The plate with the cloud image is inked while paper soaks.
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The
glass
siligraphy
plate
of
the
cloud,
inked
with
oil
based
lithography
ink,
was
printed
over
the
digigraph
umbrella
image
without
affecting
the
water
based
inks.
The
final
print
is
peeled
from
the
glass
plate.
The
edition
of
30
is
printed
on
Rives
BFK.
The
process
of
creating
Thunder
Cloud
was
documented
with
the
Olympus
600L
digital
camera.
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Digital Atelier is a registered trademark of Dorothy Simpson Krause, Bonny Lhotka and Karin Schminke. All images copyright of the artists.