Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Chromolithography: Enclose the sheet in a border and set the main image at the center.
- Type
- Set in Chromolithography's manner (Treat the decorative display face at the same density as the border ornament.), and let Lithography's lettering (Draw the lettering onto the stone by hand instead of setting type) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Chromolithography's material (Combine thick color from overlaid stones with gold at key points.); bring in exactly one thing from Lithography (Greasy crayon or tusche on stone, tone held by oil against water).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #eadfca, #a24f3e, #373334.
Where they fight
- Both belong to Planographic Printing, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
- Two techniques rather than two looks. Decide which one runs last in the process, because that is the one that will show.
Caution
- Chromolithography More colors do not make it richer. The order of the stones and the register decide the result.
- Lithography Pencil texture is not it, and neglecting density control crushes the tone into a merely blurred image. Learn how oil against water, the stone, damping, the roller and overprinted plates shape line and color.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Chromolithography (Technique, 1830s–1930s) and its accent from Lithography (Technique, 1796–). Structural cues: Dense color built from a dozen or more stones; Slight misregister between the stones; Flat solids used together with stipple; Border ornament used together with gold. Accent cues, used sparingly: Greasy crayon; Stone or metal plate; Painterly tone; Multicolor overprinting. Composition: Enclose the sheet in a border and set the main image at the center.. Type and lettering: Treat the decorative display face at the same density as the border ornament.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Greasy crayon or tusche on stone, tone held by oil against water. Mood: Exhilaration, Luxury, Nostalgia, Intimacy. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #eadfca, #a24f3e, #373334. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Chromolithography 1830s–1930s / Technique / Planographic Printing
Multicolor printing in which a separate lithographic stone is prepared for each color and the stones are overlaid in exact register. A dozen or more stones built up an intensity like oil paint and sent reproductions, labels, posters and cards into the world in quantity. The popularization of color printing begins here.
- Lithography 1796– / Technique / Planographic Printing
Uses the repulsion of oil and water to reproduce crayon and tusche drawing from stone or plate, keeping all the softness of the hand.
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