About the Artist

 

 

Larry Welo

"I do the colors in different ways. Most frequently I use plates that are the same size, applying a color ink to each plate and then printing in register. The colors combine when one color is printed over another. Generally, one of my color etchings involves using three or four plates.

Another way that I do color is chine colle. With chine colle, I cut out dyed Japanese paper to the sizes and shapes that I want. I apply a glue that is used in book conservation to the sheets (it is called methyl cellulose paste), position them on my inked plate on the press bed, and when I pull a plate through the press, the printing ink is transferred to the dyed paper and to the main, underlying sheet of printing paper.

The last way I do color etchings is to use stencils that I cut out and then roll ink onto the plate's surface."

 

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