printing with a stone
Eva Kerek received a grant from the Lithography museum in Huddinge, Stockholm. Now she spends several days a week in the workshop to finish off her artist book containing small lithographs.
Printing with a stone is a time-consuming business. The stone is treated in many different ways, with gum arabic, be wet and then dried again, painted with ink or with a crayon, etc.
See Eva Kerek's earlier lithographs and other prints here
The image is drawn on the stone with an oily pencil
The stone is treated in several steps to etch the image onto the stone
The stone is dried
Colour is applied to the stone
Paper is put on the stone and run through the printing press