Gravure workshops

Terry King (101522.2625@CompuServe.COM)
29 Jul 96 03:20:56 EDT

Peter Marshall said:

>Yes, a good week was had by most of us I think, and we (including Terry I'm
>sure learnt a lot.)

Peter

As you know I am a firm believer in the 'hands on' workshop.

One of the advantages in running such workshops is that all the enthusiastic
people who take part have their own expertise. This leads to a cross
fertilisation of ideas which is always stimulating. I certainly learn a lot
from every workshop I run.

On this one I gathered some good prints to give to Autotype, ( thank you for
yours*), learnt further how to cope both with wildly varying levels of
humidity and temperature and also with the experience of the college closing
down around our ears rather faster than I was given to expect.

As you imply gravure on aquatinted copper gives a greater range of tones and
more subtlety than the photopolymer versions of gravure which are promoted on
the basis of convenience and the need to protect ourselves from dichromates
which are very dangerous if you eat them or take baths in them. For the
individual they are, of course, less dangerous than many items found in the
kitchen cupboard.

As to positives printed from scanned images, those we had in the two gravure
workshops this summer certainly demonstrate that electronically produced
positives and negatives are not only viable alternatives but soon will, in most
cases, provide acceptable replacements for large format graphic arts films.

Terry King

PS That wasn't a greasy spoon, it was an excellent caff . Where else could you
get bacon, eggs, beans and two slices with a wet sugar cooked by a man in a silk
suit.