Waiting on the Bus

Very interesting visually and as a process.

Very nice...the pose suggests she's waiting for her ride-but bored or tired.
As a former intaglio/litho major, I vaguely remember this process...After the transfer (rolled through press from fiber to plate?) you then process the plate (zinc/copper?), ink and print?
I've been wanting to get a small intaglio press for years...

The bleached/tanned and then inked fiber base print is the plate. No metal or copper plates are used. The real challenge is registration -- the paper "plate" is soaked in water prior to brush inking and then again prior to the press pass. It shrinks and swells. Swells with the addition of moisture and shrinks as the water in the gelatine evaporates. Normally it takes more than one inking and press pull and registration must be perfect. The shrinking and swelling of the paper makes the registration difficult.
This is probably more than you wanted to know! :>) Gene

Thanks Gene. I had no idea you could use the paper as a plate.
I worked with a proffessor one summer doing litho transfers ( a peel and stick type paper) but that would then have to be etched (on plate) then inked and printed.
It's coming back...but very slowly.

Glad you posted these-good motivation for me to plan ahead.

Nice, really nice!

I had a local college professor to come into my studio one day while I was inking a bromoil print. "I could do what you're doing better and faster in Photoshop," he said. "You wouldn't be doing what I am doing," I replied. "And besides, why aren't you at your computer "doing it" rather than standing here watching me produce a one-of-a-kind hand crafted print?" He snarled, grunted and left, never to return.