Write up your process in full sentences, addressing each bullet point. Ensure that your write up would effectively form a set of instructions for someone who had not done the process. If you can take some photos of the tools you used and the final plate you produced to illustrate your account then award yourself extra marks!
- List the materials you used for producing YOUR gold card plate - clue - they were not entirely the same as those illustrated in the photo above.
- Describe how you transferred your image onto the gold card, in this photographic example a tracing has been used, but we did a variant on this process, explain.
- Once the image was transferred onto the gold card how did you go about cutting the plate? Talk about tools you used and different mark-making techniques you employed (peeling, linear cutting, scratching etc.)
- What health and safety issues are there with using craft knives - what are the likely consequences of misuse? How can you ensure you use them safely? (tidy work space? direction and force of cutting? position of fingers in relation to blade?
- Describe the inking up process. How is ink applied? What steps do you need to take to keep yourself and the studio clean?
- Once the plate is covered in ink, what did you have to do next before the plate was ready for printing? Clue is in the photos.
- Once you are ready to print what did you (or your teacher) have to do to get the image from your plate onto paper? Describe the process illustrated in the series of photos below:
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| (Not the press you used, but you get the idea...) |
- Finally comment on how successful you feel your print was and what you might do differently next time you do the process to get even better results.
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