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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:

bulletUp 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.
bulletAlos Senefelder, who invented Lithography, toyed with the idea of using clay matrix before he discovered the benefits of Bavarian Linestone.
bulletPaul Gaughin, an impressionist painter, carved into a slab of wet clay, inked it and pulled prints.
bulletIn 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

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