My First Lithographs Are Going Out to Patreon Supporters
I just finished framing up and sending my first (mostly successful) lithographs to be sent to my Patreon Supporters ($3 and above).
Over the past several month’s I’ve been incrementally learning the process of lithography using a process called kitchen lithography. I used a book titled Kitchen Lithographie, translated from the French, by Émilie Aizier.
The process had a few key advantages for me:
It uses non-toxic materials
It uses, mostly, readily available materials
The process has been both interesting and frustrating. It is definitely an art that requires a lot of trial and error. The book provides some good descriptions of science behind making lithographs and novel approaches to producing a printing plate with aluminum foil, cola, and vegetable oil. But sorting out the acidification process required maybe 10 plus attempts. Inking the plate was a complete disaster on many iterations. But after 15-20 or so attempts I produced a decent enough series of 8 prints, some of which are in the mail to patrons.
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How To
If you’re interested in trying kitchen lithography, I recommend getting the book to read about the materials and the process, but supplementing it with some videos and my notes below. Good luck.
Get the book
The outline of the process on the bottom of this page is also a very helpful summary of the books intent.
A few video’s I thought were helpful
From the author
A slightly different process using some different materials, but offering some good details on technique
This was the best
Here is a scan of my notes on the process:
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