So I have been in Ballarat for a week now as an artist in residence at the Federation university art school. My aim was to come here and continue with some lithographic transfer paper research I had started back home, give a talk to students about my practice and run an intro to plate lithography workshop (my workshop is running over the weekend so will update then)
I have been trying to make a textured transfer paper that could be used by artists as a way to produce a different style of marks. Before coming out here I prepared some transfer paper to work on which through my first set of experiments discovered they have a use by date. Crayon drawing works but solvent washes don’t. For the last few days I have been experimenting with the strength of the solvent wash and the age of the transfer paper, and have made Links regarding these things. Lots of questions have been thrown around regarding solutions and reasons for unreliable results, however I am unable to explore all of these during this short residency but will continue with this research once back in the UK.
