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| New Copper Shop Image |
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| Old Copper Shop image |
The first Copper Shop that I had made was just too wide to print on the roof tiles.
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| New Copper Shop print |
The detail was lost when the image was reduced, and the trees are no longer there.
When I taught the class at the Power House back in October, I took some photos of the Copper Shop so that I could make a new print for the tiles. The new print will have the same words under neath. After I had made the black print for the tiles, I decided to make a multicolored print. A few years ago I had bought some Jacquard Screen Printing Ink - it was in metallic copper - I decided to use that for the roof and some of the detail. I printed on a craft colored paper that has darker flecks in it. I added dome detail to the background. I like the way the copper ink printed on the craft paper.
The Copper Shop is dear to me. That is where there is a display of my work. I hope to take a few of the Copper Shop prints there next week. Right now, I am waiting for an order of mat board - I plan to mat this new print in black. I used two screens for this print. One has just the black image and the second was used to print copper and a darker shade of copper as a reduction print. The screens were both made with Speedball Drawing Fluid and Screen Filler. It was difficult to photograph this print, as the light reflected from the right hand side because of the metallic ink. I will go back to the campus and print the roof tiles with the new image - whenever.
