Today I learnt how to do stone lithography. It is one of the most tiresome processes I have come across and is very labour intensive, not for the faint hearted! I think you definitely have to be a die hard printmaker to have the determination to go through with this process as it takes a very long time to do all of the preparation work thoroughly.
Here are some photos of my stone so far, I won’t be printing it until tomorrow as my arm started to shake so much from grinding the stone that I wouldn’t have been able to put the paper down steady enough!
It is a field of poppies so I think I will hand paint some of them with watercolour and possibly monoprint via silk screen with some of the others to get a coloured background down for them as I really like to get a bit of colour in my work.
