A method for printing reduction woodcuts on an etching press. A printing method that takes into concideration the slight movement of paper when an etching press is used for planographic printing. The plate is always positioned so it always goes the rollers top first. The original title of the piece was “Gladys McEvoy‘s way of avoiding creep”.
Poor Joke
While walking the dog yesterday, I remembered taking the photograph that makes this bad art pun. The firm, on Derbyshire Lane, now works under a different name.
The Many States of Above Eyam is a set of pages showing the different stages the plate “Above Eyam” went through. I wouldn’t normally show how I work on a plate, but this one is different. I was so convinced that I had really nailed the image when I took the first print after a couple of etches, I couldn’t believe how deluded I’d been. I try not to overwork my etching plates, it seems to keep them fresh looking. This was different, it was a large piece of copper and I really liked the subject. The final image looks so photographic, I thought it would be good to show the struggle I went through.
“Skimmers”, a short video showing the inspiration for the woodcuts and etchings, was started yesterday and finished today. It is still a mystery to me where the stone could have been thrown from, and how we never noticed it.
There’s now a very short video of me playing a fiddle solo with The Greasy Skillet Skiffle Band, live at the Brothers Arms, Sheffield, last summer. In Videos.