SGC International Knoxville, Tennessee Day 4

            Friday was demo day~! I was able to 

make it to four different demos. I'm going to try 

to go through each in a step by step process. The 

demo's i went too were called: 

'One + One = Infinity' a demo about creating full 

color intaglio etchings with just two plates by 

Art Werger. 

'3-Ring Circuits: Creating Interactive Sculptures 

with Paper Circuits' by Erik Waterkotte.

 'INK Version 2.0: The Creative Potential Of 

Advanced Ink Technologies' by Brian Gonzales.

'Another Sphere: Alternative Papermaking' a 

demo about creating paper using different food products by Amanda Berry

     

    First was the intaglio demo by Art Werger. Which was probably my favorite part of this entire trip. The first thing Art Werger showed us was how he does his color registrations. He etches one plate in the warm spectrum and one in the cool. With the warm plate he uses selective color to wipe five different colors in horizontal bands. Then he wipes the cool plate in five different colors horizontally. When these two are printed on top of one another Werger is able to create 25 different color registrations off of one print. (shown bellow)

        From this color registration Werger selectively applies color to different parts of the plate to create the desired tone. He uses a piece a small reference paper to remember where to place each of the colors. You can see it in his hand in the top photo. Bellow is what the final plate looks like.

           Werger does this two both of the plates, with two separate color patterns with a small amount of top roll ink added in a neon orange. Werger said that in intaglio yellow turns out green so he uses the neon orange to create a yellow glow to the windows.

       In order to correctly register the second plate Werger actually printed a small + in the image with his finger nail. and then shifted the paper so that the two cross sections lined up. In this image you can see him pointing to the place where this cross section was located




This is also what the final print looked like. Pretty unbelievable. Bellow it I also posted pictures of some of Wergers other work.







































The next demo I went to was '3-Ring Circuits: Creating Interactive Sculptures with Paper Circuits' with demonstrators Erik Waterkotte, Heather Freeman, and Ryan Buyssens.

This demo was mostly about teaching us about new materials. Namely this Conductive paint that you can screen print with. You can see the paint in the picture above.




        Then I went to Brian Gonzales' 'INK Version 2.0: The Creative Potential Of Advanced Ink Technologies'

      Which was very similar to the last demo in that it was about new paints that can be used for screen printing. In this demo all of the inks were heat sensitive. Some went from black to clear under heat and others were fully chromatic. They were like mood ring inks.

On the right here is the project name for the ink shown bellow. The only problem is a small jug that size will run you about $700.

      Last but not least I went to 'Another Sphere: Alternative Papermaking' by Amanda Berry. In this demo she not only showed us how to create paper but also how to use different food products to create all sorts of different kinds of paper. My personal favorite was the paper that used cinnamon. I also got the opportunity to pull a sheet of this paper. The process of making paper was much much simpler than I had always assumed. I hope to be creating my own in the new future!

And these are all of the final papers! Created with everything from corn to cocoa to tomato soup!