Experimenting with Tetrapak printing Daphnia, weird little planktonic crustaceans a few millimetres in length known as water fleas.
This one is Daphnia longispina, a Eurasian fresh water flea found in bodies of water of various sizes, as small as rock pools up to large lakes. They mainly eat algae.
Tetrapak printing is something you can do with Tetrapak containers - in this case an empty box of juice!
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#printmaking #sciart #Daphnia #drypoint #etching #TetrapakPrintmaking #MastoArt
In theory you could print these with elbow grease and say, a spoon, but a press is much easier. I found it took a lot of pressure.
It’s good to be able to raid the recycling bin for art supplies, and it’s easy to cut a Tetrapak plate in any shape you want. But the plates don’t last the way a zinc one would, and you can only make smaller editions. 🧵3/3
@utopify_org thank you!
I don’t have a video, but there are several tutorials online. Here’s a nice short one of someone else using the same method:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=83Q2qoDhMF8
Here’s a nice tutorial in text by another artist:
Ele Willoughby, PhD
maxmoon 🌱
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