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I've been reading more and more about electrolytic copper etching and really wanting to try it. I think I could even use my pasta press as a tiny printing press with small pieces of copper to make prints from the etched metal.
So I have this idea:
Step 1: Etch design onto copper.
Step 2: Hand-pull a limited run of prints, say 30 of them or something, and sell them on Etsy for a relatively low price ($5? $10? I don't have a good feel for the price range for art prints where the printed area is smaller than the size of a playing card).
Step 3:Profit! Make a really cool piece of jewelry from the copper plate (or potentially multiple pieces, sawing could be involved) and... auction it off? Sell it normally on Etsy?
The jewelry design would be the reverse of the printed design, so there's a bit of constraint there (though words that were backwards on the piece of jewelry could possibly look kind of interesting).
Anyway, this feels like a fun project idea with lots of potential for interstitiality and *waves hands* stuff. I can also imagine neat twisty-turny combinations of lockets and prints of different designs, and so on. I like the idea of many people getting a copy of one aspect of the piece of jewelry, but the jewelry piece itself remaining unique and singular. And the mad science factor of electrolytic etching is pretty great :D So my questions to you guys are:
1) Does this sound interesting? Would you buy a single-color tiny print, or a single smallish page with several tiny single-color prints, and if so, at what price point? What is the smallest size of print you can imagine buying and actually displaying somewhere? Would you find small prints more useful as tiny cards (with attendant tiny cute envelopes)?
2) What sorts of images would you like to see both etched into copper jewelry and hung on your wall? Abstract designs, vintage illustrations, silhouettes of actual objects, bits of quotes, original drawings of mine or someone else's? Collages made up of all of these things? Keep in mind that this is only monochrome.
3) Are you an illustrator or graphics-making person who'd like to see your stuff printed this way? Do you know someone who would? I'm definitely capable of turning out images in Inkscape, but it's not the thing I'm best at, and maybe collaborating with someone who's fantastic at making pictures would lead to even greater awesomeness.
(ETA: I'm asking here not because you're the only ones I'm interested in selling to, but because I think you're a fairly representative sample of the sorts of people I'd be trying to sell to.)
Eeeee I like having an Exciting Project Idea in my head ^___^
So I have this idea:
Step 1: Etch design onto copper.
Step 2: Hand-pull a limited run of prints, say 30 of them or something, and sell them on Etsy for a relatively low price ($5? $10? I don't have a good feel for the price range for art prints where the printed area is smaller than the size of a playing card).
Step 3:
The jewelry design would be the reverse of the printed design, so there's a bit of constraint there (though words that were backwards on the piece of jewelry could possibly look kind of interesting).
Anyway, this feels like a fun project idea with lots of potential for interstitiality and *waves hands* stuff. I can also imagine neat twisty-turny combinations of lockets and prints of different designs, and so on. I like the idea of many people getting a copy of one aspect of the piece of jewelry, but the jewelry piece itself remaining unique and singular. And the mad science factor of electrolytic etching is pretty great :D So my questions to you guys are:
1) Does this sound interesting? Would you buy a single-color tiny print, or a single smallish page with several tiny single-color prints, and if so, at what price point? What is the smallest size of print you can imagine buying and actually displaying somewhere? Would you find small prints more useful as tiny cards (with attendant tiny cute envelopes)?
2) What sorts of images would you like to see both etched into copper jewelry and hung on your wall? Abstract designs, vintage illustrations, silhouettes of actual objects, bits of quotes, original drawings of mine or someone else's? Collages made up of all of these things? Keep in mind that this is only monochrome.
3) Are you an illustrator or graphics-making person who'd like to see your stuff printed this way? Do you know someone who would? I'm definitely capable of turning out images in Inkscape, but it's not the thing I'm best at, and maybe collaborating with someone who's fantastic at making pictures would lead to even greater awesomeness.
(ETA: I'm asking here not because you're the only ones I'm interested in selling to, but because I think you're a fairly representative sample of the sorts of people I'd be trying to sell to.)
Eeeee I like having an Exciting Project Idea in my head ^___^