Demo 6: The Yupo Matrix and Digital Ground: Off-Market Product Use for Innovative Printmaking

This demo will show printmakers how to use Yupo Paper and Digital Ground for Non-Porous Surfaces for off market purposes, producing innovative prints. Yupo is a plastic watercolor “paper” developed for the commercial graphics industry that can become a matrix for watercolor monoprint, collagraph, and digital transfer. Yupo will be used for a watercolor monotype, and then create a collagraph, printing the image with damp paper and a press. With this flexible base, digital ground for non-porous surfaces will be used to put inked plates through an unmodified inkjet printer for a combination of conventional and alternative printing processes; it will also be printed with wet paper and an etching press. This new material for the matrix will marry a spectrum of traditional and alternative creation as well as show digital transfer.