unveiling
this is an ongoing project where i mash three different print processes (intaglio, woodcut, cyanotype) together and see what i can coax them into doing.
untitled (shell), 8”x8”, woodcut, cyanotype, and intaglio etching on rag paper. var ed of 4. 2025.
this was the first test, trying to nail down how i could apply the cyanotype as well as making a first pass at how registration of all three layers could be attempted.
untitled (shroud), 6”x10”. cyanotype and reduction woodcut. var. ed. of 4. 2025.
drew the cyanotype transparency by hand and was experimenting with exposure times to try and play with its potential for shadow, value, and depth. also trying to nail down registration techniques; settled on conclusion that i need to plan all parts of the image at the same time and work with a consistent t-bar system across all three methods.
untitled (dog), 4”x7”, cyanotype, reduction woodcut, mezzotint, etching. var. ed. of 4. 2025.
Managed to figure out a system of registration that allowed for all layers to communicate to each other- you can see that there’s still a tiny amout of wiggle, but the cyanotype and woodcut are coherently in the same spots. once again was playing with exposure times and found that the darker ones are more Coherent, especially given that the woodcut didn’t have any shading in it whatsoever. placing the etchings where they ended up living also allowed for a lot of wiggle room in the registration, which worked out VEry well. this process ended up being what i moved forward with and brought to a larger scale.
“confrontation”, 30”x20”. ed. of 5. cyanotype, 10-layer reduction woodcut, and intaglio. 2025.
ta-da! the piece informed by those previous. holy smokes was this a labour of love. it took me a month and change to put together, from initial sketch for the cyanotype negative to printing the intaglio frieze. it turns out when you scale up a process by a lot it makes the process much more difficult. who’d have thought.
this is the largest print i’ve ever made and i am extremely proud of it. i also think that it’s the first completely realized print done with this frankenprocess, and that future ones will only build on it further.