wnussbaum: fromasouthernstate: See those scratches? They kept appearing on my stone every time I’d roll out ink today. Obvious conclusion - my litho stone is HAUNTED. Those are clearly marks from beyond this world. Claw marks. Orrrrr I’ve seen too many horror movies. The deal with scratches like these are that they are going to happen when you do lithography. There isn’t any particular way around it. Most likely this is a little different cause than the Jesus Stone that Black Heart Press brought up recently. Most artists just accept the reality that you will get white lines when doing stone litho. The primary cause of this would be a mineral deposit that is running through the stone. Whereas the Jesus Stone is caused by a previous image, these white lines are inherently in the makeup of the stone. Tough luck, but still a nice image. They don’t seriously distract from the image and if anything, someone that knows what’s going on will recognize the level of process that went into the piece because of those lines. I didn’t know about the Jesus Stone! Glad to see He’s branching out from the toast-and-soup circuit. :) The white lines on my stone were mostly from me having to scratch out/tap out to fix mistakes, but I had a dark grey streak of granite and some fossils that I had to work around. I like having those kinds of things in the stone - they add to the history of it and make an image more interesting. The back side of this one has an etching from an actual peach crate label on it.

wnussbaum:

fromasouthernstate:

See those scratches? They kept appearing on my stone every time I’d roll out ink today. Obvious conclusion - my litho stone is HAUNTED. Those are clearly marks from beyond this world. Claw marks.

Orrrrr I’ve seen too many horror movies.

The deal with scratches like these are that they are going to happen when you do lithography. There isn’t any particular way around it. Most likely this is a little different cause than the Jesus Stone that Black Heart Press brought up recently.

Most artists just accept the reality that you will get white lines when doing stone litho. The primary cause of this would be a mineral deposit that is running through the stone. Whereas the Jesus Stone is caused by a previous image, these white lines are inherently in the makeup of the stone.

Tough luck, but still a nice image. They don’t seriously distract from the image and if anything, someone that knows what’s going on will recognize the level of process that went into the piece because of those lines.

I didn’t know about the Jesus Stone! Glad to see He’s branching out from the toast-and-soup circuit. :)

The white lines on my stone were mostly from me having to scratch out/tap out to fix mistakes, but I had a dark grey streak of granite and some fossils that I had to work around. I like having those kinds of things in the stone - they add to the history of it and make an image more interesting. The back side of this one has an etching from an actual peach crate label on it.

(via wnussbaum)

  1. fromasouthernstate reblogged this from wnussbaum and added:
    I didn’t know about the Jesus Stone! Glad to see He’s branching out from the toast-and-soup circuit. :) The white lines...
  2. wnussbaum reblogged this from fromasouthernstate and added:
    Let me edit this post and just say that I don’t know what I’m talking about, but please feel free to see how I was wrong...
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