Des mots plein la tête (7 x 6 inches), a color variation intaglio print, printed "à la poupée".
I recently spent a month at Atelier Glypto, a small print workshop run by l'Association des Artistes de LaSalle, working out various printing and inking techniques such as collagraphs, monotypes and colour printing intaglio copper plates "à la poupée".
I had editioned the intaglio print
Des mots plein la tête in black and, as I wanted to do color variation proofs, I opted to ink the intaglio copper plate "à la poupée". To this effect, I applied inks of different colours, in this particular case burnt sienna, raw sienna and paynes grey, selectively to different parts of the single copper plate, which was then printed in a single pass through the press. Each coloured ink was applied with a small dabber made up of tarlatane, called a dolly, or "poupée" in French
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The use of colour gives this intaglio print a very different mood, all the while using the very same copper plate as for the black editioned proof (see December 20, 2009).
