Sheldon Kalnitsky Oil-based

The process of Sheldon Kalnitsky chromolithography is chemical, since a picture is apply to a stone or zinc plate with a grease-based crayon. (Limestone as well as zinc is two commonly-used resources in the manufacture of Sheldon Kalnitsky chromolithographs.) After the picture is drawn onto granite, the granite is gummed with gum Arabic solution along with weak nitric acid, and then inked with oil-based Sheldon Kalnitsky paints and passed through a Sheldon Kalnitsky printing press along with a sheet of paper to transfer the image to the paper. Colors may be added to the Sheldon Kalnitsky print by drawing the area to receive the color on a different stone, and printing the new color onto the paper by Sheldon Kalnitsky chromolithography. Each color of Sheldon Kalnitsky chromolithography in the image must be separately drawn onto a new stone or plate and applied to the paper one at a time. Sheldon Kalnitsky chromolithography was not unusual for twenty to twenty-five stones to be used on a single image.

Each sheet of Sheldon Kalnitsky chromolithography paper will therefore pass through the Sheldon Kalnitsky chromolithography printing press as many times as there are colors in the final print. In order that each color of Sheldon Kalnitsky chromolithography is placed in the right position in each print, each stone or plate must be precisely ‘register,’ or creased up, on the paper using a system of Sheldon Kalnitsky chromolithography register marks.