{"id":164,"date":"2011-01-10T01:34:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T06:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2016-12-10T10:25:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T15:25:33","slug":"printmaking-workshop-xerox-transfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/archives\/164","title":{"rendered":"Printmaking workshop: Xerox transfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every winter break at SVA (where I work full-time), staff and students in my department get to try new art-making technique workshops.\u00a0 Last week, we experimented with Xerox transfer printmaking.\u00a0 My partner, photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idletype.com\">Troy McCullough<\/a>, was kind enough to contribute 2 photos, which I collaged with a drawing of mine, and printed.<\/p>\n<p>Xerox transfer is a really quick, fun, printmaking process.\u00a0 Having only tried lithography and silkscreening in the past, I was surprised how simple this process was.\u00a0 We combined drawings and photos, photocopied the composition on regular office paper, then simply brushed gum arabic (sort of like a thinner rubber cement) over the paper.\u00a0 Then, we rolled printing ink directly onto the gummed surface, slapped some rag paper on top, and put it through the press!\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t believe I could directly ink and print the paper surface without it falling apart.The paper was pretty much good for just one print, so there was no worry about multiple editions.<\/p>\n<p>Here is one end result:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/crowprint_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-165\" title=\"crowprint_sm\" src=\"http:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/crowprint_sm-628x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/crowprint_sm-628x1024.jpg 628w, https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/crowprint_sm-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/crowprint_sm.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every winter break at SVA (where I work full-time), staff and students in my department get to try new art-making technique workshops.\u00a0 Last week, we experimented with Xerox transfer printmaking.\u00a0 My partner, photographer Troy McCullough, was kind enough to contribute &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/archives\/164\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonstephen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}