I am a printer specially for the lithography.
Lithography is a 200 year old printing technique, invented in Germany. Unlike the etching or engraving on
metal plates, it is a planographic printing process based on the resistance of water to grease. An image is drawn on limestone
or an aluminium plate with a greasy substance,
such as a crayon or ink. Then etched with acid to make stabilise the image. After dampening the surface
with water, printing ink adheres only on the image area. When the matrix is run through a press with a sheet of paper, the
inked surface is transferred. The fluid, spontaneous strokes that appear in lithography because of the grain of stones or
aluminium plates.
Unfortunately, to the printer, always more respect on printing technique. I conjecture that beyond technique,
however, the successful work of art will be a fortuitous marriage of idea, image, and proces
