A Trial Book of Lithographs

Sunday 12th November 2023

This is a trial for a future book idea - to have a series of lithographs that evolve throughout the book. I started to make visually connected images in tusche (2nd row of squares in the image below). Since I didn't have a strong enough idea to make more rows, I started experimenting with lithography crayons, inks, tusche, and mixed these together and sometimes dropped them in water.

Drawing on a 75 x 50 cm stone in 11.5 cm squares.

I tore the paper after printing. In this photo I arranged them in order of how successful I believed them to be, from least successful on the left to my most successful on the right.

Half of the pages are blank, to make the book work I would need to to print on the same paper twice, once on each side.

I think this double page works best.

The purpose of this book was to find out how long the lithographs should dry before turning them into a book, to see whether torn book pages work aesthetically and to practice with different lithographic materials.