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Clay Prints by Mitch Lyons © 2003
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History
There is none! Unless you refer to dipping one's hand into pigmented clay and
slapping the hand onto a cave wall, as did the Anastazi 25 thousand years ago.
During my years of researching clay as a printing medium, however, I did find
some interesting facts:
 | Up until the 15th Century, drawings were
done with dried pieces of clay that were carved to a point to make marks on
paper before the invention of charcoal or pastel. |
 | Alos Senefelder, who invented Lithography, toyed with the idea of using
clay matrix before he discovered the benefits of Bavarian Linestone. |
 | Paul Gaughin, an impressionist painter, carved into a slab of wet clay,
inked it and pulled prints. |
 | In the early 1940's, artists experimenting at Black Mountain College in
North Carolina tried printing with clay. |
I found no evidence of prints made from a slab of colored clay.
Written by Mitch Lyons
The Art of Clay Printing
68 minutes
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