Book description
In Digital Alchemy, acclaimed printmaker Bonny Pierce Lhotka
shows how to turn your standard inkjet printer into a seemingly
magical instrument capable of transforming your printed images into
true works of art. Using plenty of visuals and straightforward
terms, Lhotka walks you step-by-step through over a dozen projects.
Forget printing on boring old paper, in Digital Alchemy,
you’ll learn how to transfer and print images to a variety of
surfaces including metal, wood, fabric, stone, and plastic using
the techniques Lhotka’s spent years developing.
If you’re a photographer looking for new ways to personalize
your work or a digital artist who’s ready to take your work
to the next level, you’ll find all of the tools, techniques,
and inspiration you need in this book. Lhotka’s enthusiasm
for experimenting with unusual printing materials and processes has
led her to create new and amazing transfer techniques, including
one that resembles a Polaroid™ transfer on steroids. She also
shows you how to make prints using unexpected, everyday materials
such as hand sanitizer and gelatin. You’ll even learn direct
printing, the technique for sending your custom substrate through
your printer almost as if it were paper.
In Digital Alchemy, you’ll learn how to:
Transfer images to metal, wood, plastic, and other materials
that will not feed through an inkjet printer
Print directly on metal for a fraction of the cost of using a
print service
Simulate a print from an expensive UV flatbed printer using an
inexpensive desktop printer
Use carrier sheets and paintable precoats to print on almost
any surface
Achieve near-lithographic quality digital prints with transfer
processes to uncoated fine art paper
In addition to the tutorials in the book, you can watch Lhotka
in action on the included DVD-ROM, which has over 60 minutes of
video footage where you’ll learn how to perform an alcohol
gel transfer, transfer an image to a wooden surface, use your
inkjet printer to achieve remarkable prints, and more. Simply
insert the DVD-ROM into your computer's DVD drive. Note, this
DVD-ROM will not work in TV DVD players.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Artist Statement
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: The Value of Atoms or Print is Dead—Long Live Print
- Foreword: Alchemy for Everyone© 2010
- Section I. Basics
- Section II. Alcohol Gel and SuperSauce Transfers
- Section III. Gelatin Transfers
- Section IV. Direct Printing
- Section V. Finishing up and Looking Ahead
- Index
- Media
Product information
- Title: Digital Alchemy: Printmaking techniques for fine art, photography, and mixed media
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2010
- Publisher(s): New Riders
- ISBN: 9780132562928
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