Making a Lithographic Print at The Tamarind Institute of Lithography

Thanks to Artist Stephanie Mercado and the Tamarind Institute of Lithography For Sharing This Video With Us

[@inklayer1213]

nice work guys - you make it look easy

[@joshuacowell963]

This is brilliant to watch on many levels of professionalism and I was just wondering if you use different plates for each colour to achieve the final print? Many thanks for posting this video. You rock!

[@DusanPavlicek78]

Cool video, cool soundtrack 😁👍

[@stephaniemercado]

Thank you for sharing! It was such a memorable experience!!!

[@InternationalPrintingMuseum]

Yes it was!

[@xackson]

Hey the post-rock choice of music was awesome. Who is the artist/musician(s)?

[@JohnPrepuce]

Still no reply?

[@rgraz4929]

Is that limestone? Modern day Alois Senefelders! (the inventor offset printing or lithography) Nice stuff!!

[@msbalboa1000]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@adalaire]

fabulous!

[@BilliePosters]

yes its the best

[@bibibipapipa]

How come the sponges don’t pick up and smudge the ink?

[@business_cat_meow]

the ink is grease based and the sponges have water on them. by pressing only lightly with the sponge, the ink is repelled by the water and doesn't smudge

[@thomasgoglio6851]

Their backs are going to be toast within one or two years using those jumbo rollers. They need to learn how to feather a flat using smaller rollers. Either that or use their DUFA for those large flats

[@BilliePosters]

XD Babe that large roller is a silicone rubber roller and it weights almost nothing, you use no pressure with lithography it glides and rolls over the surface, they're backs are going to be fine if they hold good posture when rolling.

[@thomasgoglio6851]

@@BilliePosters As a lithographer of 50+ years all I can say is good luck. I know how light the rollers are, but to have your shoulders spread like that no matter the weight will eventually do you in. I'm just saying there are simpler ways to achieve the same results. I actually make a roller like those that come in at under 8 pounds. I still wouldn't use one on a regular basis, especially for editioning.

[@peterbonucci9661]

I don't understand fine art printing. One article I read basically said the current printing technology, (e.g. offset,) can't be fine art.(Wikipedia.) Another one emphasized that each print was different from the others. It seems like it can only be fine art if it is obsolete technology and/or poor QA. These people are using stone lithography, so they tick off the obsolete box, but they look like a professional printing group. Screenprinting seems to buck this trend. It is still used commercially, but people still make fine art. I don't get it. What is the difference that makes some printing art and other printing not art?

[@BilliePosters]

Stone lithography is hardly obsolete there is no other way to get the variety of marks and richness of colour in printing , you simply cannot make a print that has the same qualities without it, and you work directly to the matrix (the stone) which allows for a different type of image construction than making the image first in another medium. Fine Art isn't about commercial printing, its about producing art images in the print medium. Of course it has to have a commercial potential to exist long-term in a capitalist's society, but it there is a reason all walks of artist are STILL drawn to lithography like a magnet, it's mysterious, its beautiful and it's extremely potent at forming arresting images. Don't sleep on stone lithography bbe.

[@blastsucarta1068]

Too much jealous commentary

[@BilliePosters]

thank you!

[@joecrowe7062]

How much did you ladies pay to learn to print,when you could of got a job at a printshop and made money learning how to print.my record was printing 1.250 million feet of Victoria secret tissue paper not a easy task printing on thin paper like that but we could run it at 2400feet per minute

[@BilliePosters]

There aren't many jobs at print workshops LET ALONE many print workshops left around the world who do traditional methods. That's why they have to pay, the apprenticeships and jobs have dwindled to a near non-existence.

[@thomasgoglio6851]

Gravure?