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Paul Jackson
ART NAHPRO
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lord marmalade 77 months ago | reply
Now as a teacher in a secondary school I come across a lot of erasers which are left behind. Now what I have observed is that erasers have varoius densitiies and I would be hard pressed to choose the best one for this purpose. I must admit that I took my fine exac-to knife to an eraser a couple of days ago and found that carving in this amount of space is not that easy.. I wondered then about the carving tool or the eraser itself . Any hints ? suggestions... On the other hand I'm quite comfortable with setting up the the image on the eraser....no problem there.
ART NAHPRO 77 months ago | reply
The ones that crumble easily won't suit. Some old erasers are too dense and hard. What you want is one that are firm, a little pliable and can take a clean cut .
Your blade needs to be really sharp. I use scalples for my collages and so always have new blades to hand. Find it best to start out with a new blade. Some people like to use lino cutting tools and I sometimes use these in combination with the scalple. The scalple blades I use come to a sharp point. Some people use needles as well which they sharpen in various ways to cut very fine detail.
It may be obvious but you have to be careful not to undercut. Also if you cut down at 90 degree angle you generally will not get enough support for the fine lines...therefore cut away at an angle so a line resembles a mountain ridge.
If you are cutting away a large piece of white space you will have to cut away deeply enough so that when you actually stamp the pressure doesnt take you down to what you have cut out. You can avoid this by using a roller to ink up but I nearly always use a stamp pad. Personally I quite like the little "imperfections " that appear when you are printing where you can sometimes see traces of what has been cut away but if you dont like that-a roller or much more fastidious cutting away will be fine .
Here is one of mine which shows a carved eraser and the print side by side and you can see how the white space has bee cut away-almost like valleys and ridges in a mountain range.:
lord marmalade 77 months ago | reply
Great tips ! Thank you. Now I'm off to try a few and see what goes. Exciting stuff. !
ART NAHPRO 77 months ago | reply
Let me know how you get on...