{"id":1346,"date":"2014-08-21T18:08:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T18:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:13:40","slug":"print-stories-back-to-the-new-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/?p=1346","title":{"rendered":"Print Stories: Back to the new 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I printed the plates\u00a0I was working on in my post &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/prints\/print-stories-back-to-the-new-1\/\">Back to the new I&#8217;<\/a>. These plates were first printed around a year ago, but I wasn&#8217;t happy with some of the results. In the previous post, I described the remedial work on the plates, to strengthen the surfaces and add contrast in some places.<\/p>\n<p>In each case, here are the plates, followed by the prints&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_7641.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1280\" src=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_7641.png\" alt=\"round printing plate. Untitled.\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1334\" src=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_7677.png\" alt=\"Round image: print hanging in studio at The Ropewalk, Barton upon Humber\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_7656.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1284\" src=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_7656.png\" alt=\"Painting the carborundum\/varnish mixture onto the plate surface\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_7679.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1336\" src=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_7679.png\" alt=\"New print from plate previously printed as 'Maelstrom I': print hanging in studio at The Ropewalk, Barton upon Humber\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_7650.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1359\" src=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_7650.png\" alt=\"The carborundum\/varnish mixture painting process complete\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_7678.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1335\" src=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_7678.png\" alt=\"New print from plate previously printed as 'The Cold': print hanging in studio at The Ropewalk, Barton upon Humber\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Generally, I was quite pleased with the prints. However, I think I should have printed all three in black \u2013 like the middle one \u2013 to obtain more contrast. There&#8217;s always next time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Find all my posts\u00a0about Art Printworks stories on Twitter at:\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/artprintstories?src=hash\">#artprintstories<\/a><\/strong><script><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I printed the plates\u00a0I was working on in my post &#8216;Back to the new I&#8217;. These plates were first printed around a year ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[357],"tags":[354,355,356],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prints","tag-plate","tag-preparation","tag-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82551,"href":"https:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions\/82551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}