The Last Layer: New Methods In Digital Printing For Photography, Fine Art, And Mixed Media (voices That Matter)
by Bonny Pierce Lhotka /
2013 / English / PDF
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In The Last Layer–the follow-up to Digital Alchemy, her
successful book on alternative printmaking techniques–Bonny
Lhotka teaches how to make prints that take their inspiration
from early printmaking processes. In this book, Lhotka shows
readers step-by-step how to create modern-day versions of
anthotypes, cyanotypes, tintypes, and daguerreotypes as well as
platinum and carbon prints. She also reinvents the photogravure
and Polaroid transfer processes and explores and explains
groundbreaking techniques for combining digital images with
traditional monotype, collograph, and etching press prints. By
applying these classic techniques to modern images, readers will
be able to recreate the look of historical printmaking techniques
and explore the limits of their creative voice. Best of all, the
only equipment required is a desktop inkjet printer that uses
pigment inks, and a handful of readily available materials and
supplies–not the toxic chemicals once required to perform these
very same processes.
In The Last Layer–the follow-up to Digital Alchemy, her
successful book on alternative printmaking techniques–Bonny
Lhotka teaches how to make prints that take their inspiration
from early printmaking processes. In this book, Lhotka shows
readers step-by-step how to create modern-day versions of
anthotypes, cyanotypes, tintypes, and daguerreotypes as well as
platinum and carbon prints. She also reinvents the photogravure
and Polaroid transfer processes and explores and explains
groundbreaking techniques for combining digital images with
traditional monotype, collograph, and etching press prints. By
applying these classic techniques to modern images, readers will
be able to recreate the look of historical printmaking techniques
and explore the limits of their creative voice. Best of all, the
only equipment required is a desktop inkjet printer that uses
pigment inks, and a handful of readily available materials and
supplies–not the toxic chemicals once required to perform these
very same processes.
Leveraging her training as a traditional painter and printmaker,
Bonny Lhotka brings new innovations and inventions that combine
the best of centuries of printmaking technique with modern
technology to create unique works of art and photography. After
years of experimentation and development, these new processes
allow alternative photographers, traditional printer makers, and
21st century digital artists to express their creative voice in
ways never before possible.
Leveraging her training as a traditional painter and printmaker,
Bonny Lhotka brings new innovations and inventions that combine
the best of centuries of printmaking technique with modern
technology to create unique works of art and photography. After
years of experimentation and development, these new processes
allow alternative photographers, traditional printer makers, and
21st century digital artists to express their creative voice in
ways never before possible.