Black Heart Press

Green Tea Intaglio

Since I was posting about two German guys printing with all kinds of stuff in my last post, and about my friends’ green tea pralinés for the upcoming Helsinki Restaurant Day some time ago, I’d like to tie these two posts together with today’s entry about my green tea intaglio prints I made a while ago.

Using Charbonnel Transparent Base (pictured and looking very tasty) or plate oil (not pictured) as a medium I mixed up a couple of inks using matcha, green tea powder and printed some variations of the graveyard series, on japanese and chinese papers. Curious to see how well this ink will age.

Pictured: green tea ink, one print, several details of the green tea ink prints, last picture is a detail of one grave with regular Charbonnel inks.

Further reading:

“Tea for two” by 54-71, the true men of non-doing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQN7jk-w47k