Printmaking in the Sun

An Artist’s Guide to Making Professional-Quality Prints using the Solarplate Method.

Solarplate is a versatile and expressive art medium. This book demonstrates how to use this simple technique to transform original drawings, photocopies, digital images, and photographs into high quality, finished prints. It explains how to use household items as equipment for printmaking, and gives step-by-step instructions for techniques, illustrated with color and black and white photos and examples. Of interest to students and experienced printmakers, photographers, and artists of all kinds. Welden has been working with solarplate printmaking since he created the technique in 1972.

Muir is a printmaker and freelance writer. 

Published by Watson-Guptill Publications.

144 pages.