SAND-PAPER LITHOGRAPHS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1924, Page 2

SAND-PAPER LITHOGRAPHS.

A new method of lithographing which «ill l,c of special interest ui amateur artists and school chfidrcn has been invented by Norman .Incobson, of Coketonn. Wyoming. now studying art in Paris. In the method, sand-paper replaces the expensive stones hitherto necessary. Some Jirilliant effects can even lie obtained by using as ••printing-press” the lamil.v m.-isli wringer. The idea of sand-papers lithographs came accidentally alien the young American etcher happened to run an ink-roller over a piece of sand-paper, lie noticed that the snml-paper Mould not "take” ink. He found that if he drew a design on it with wax-crayons or a pointed piece of soap and then inked the sand-paper, the design was printed not unlike that from a regular lithographing stone. A group ol American art students are nuir turning out work by the iiom- method. Mr Jacobson says that the method will he of special value in schools, as it opens up a nen- art, which can lie practised without expensive equipment. The negatives need not necessarily he drawn. If letters or silhouette pictures are cut out of a newspaper or magazine and pasted on a sheet of sand-paper, then inked and run through an ordinary wringer with a sheet of blank paper, a copy of the design is printed on the paper. Many copies* may be printed, as the sandpaper negative does pot easily weai out,