{"id":3309,"date":"2016-03-17T18:26:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T18:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:23:09","slug":"the-art-printworks-small-print-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/?p=3309","title":{"rendered":"The Art Printworks small print March!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The series of 6&#215;6 and the even smaller prints for Small Print International have been\u00a0great fun to do. The restricted size format\u00a0resulted\u00a0in a really interesting\u00a0scaling down of the marks and stuck materials on plates. I even managed to control the pouring of varnishes on the 100mm square plates, and I&#8217;m sure that I&#8217;ll return to these in the future. In fact I&#8217;m planning to have one whole wall devoted to these prints in my Ropewalk exhibition this September.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been noticing that the plates are starting to deteriorate. This means that I&#8217;ll be lucky to get many more\u00a0good prints from these plates. However, I&#8217;ve learned to accept this as a positive, as it severely restricts the number of prints, making each good one more precious and meaningful. If you&#8217;ve read some of my previous posts, you&#8217;ll know that I almost\u00a0never produce editions \u2013 this inherent\u00a0restriction forces me to move on from even my favourite printing plates,\u00a0and onto something new.<\/p>\n<p>Right now though, here are some more of the recent small prints.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1590_small.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3312\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3312\" src=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1590_small.jpg\" alt=\"Small print March: poured varnish and carborundum plate\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The plate for this print was made with poured varnish and carborundum<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1600_small.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3315\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3315\" src=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1600_small.jpg\" alt=\"Edging material plate\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Haberdashery edging\u00a0<\/em><i>material on the plate helped to produce this print. Something positive and negative going on!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1598_small.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3314\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3314\" src=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1598_small.jpg\" alt=\"Small print March: interior filler plate\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Although I have previously printed this one in blues and blacks, the colours used here reminded me of rust\u00a0<\/em><i>and decay<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1606_small.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3318\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3318\" src=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1606_small.jpg\" alt=\"Small print March: gels and filler on rich plywood plate\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>I was really pleased with\u00a0<\/em><i>this one! Interesting textures, blue\/green\/black tones and a deep embossing<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1608_small.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3319\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3319\" src=\"http:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_1608_small.jpg\" alt=\"Small print March: gels &amp; filler\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be posting a few more from this set in a few days.<\/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><\/p>\n<p><script><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The series of 6&#215;6 and the even smaller prints for Small Print International have been\u00a0great fun to do. The restricted size format\u00a0resulted\u00a0in a really interesting\u00a0scaling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[357],"tags":[404,401,413],"class_list":["post-3309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prints","tag-6x6","tag-poured-varnish","tag-small-prints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309","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=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82522,"href":"https:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions\/82522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinclairashman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}