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Handprinting Landscape Art with Tetrapak Drypoint Plates

Printing at Home with Ruth Ander

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Today, I'm showing you a super accessible way to make your own drypoint etching plate—using tetrapaks. Yes, you can upcycle your used juice or milk cartons to create beautiful prints.

Plus I'll show you how to print them at home (there's likely a whole other video to be had for that, so keep your eyes peeled!)

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20 Comments

@mikki5869 3 days ago

You are an artist !

@MargaretHarmer 1 year ago

I took out my old pasta machine: great for pressing and can use thicker watercolor papers too. Your videos are great and your work is beautiful! Thank you

@amajjikakumara6942 8 months ago

Your ideas and aesthetic are so cool. Very inspiring... and easy to do... like there are no excuses not to give it a try!

@artwardbound 1 year ago

I haven't tried this but it's a great idea and your demonstration is nice and clear. I'll keep my next set of cartons for this! I'll forward this to the art teachers at the school where I work too. Thank you.

@Paul-uc8vn 1 year ago

Very cool, cheers 🤟

@ts-art.63 1 year ago

This is a technique, i definitly will try. Thank you. ❤

@kerstenmeijnen9741 1 year ago

love it, very inspirational!

@coletteaudou 1 year ago

These are so beautiful, thanks for sharing your very inspiring process ! Love from France !

@alidaesparragoza6848 1 year ago

Thanks from Margarita Island.Venezuela

@johnpuli3056 1 year ago

I use the whole Tetrapak as my plates and have done so from 2017 and theory have been really popular with people

@TERRYBIGGENDEN 10 months ago

A wonderful accessible technique. I'm ready t try it. :-)

@judithmalan1502 1 year ago

So much FUN!❤❤❤❤
THANK YOU

@MixedMediaArtByTrina 1 year ago

This is a fantastic technique. Definitely going to try this weekend. Thanks for sharing. 😍

@AliceDel 1 year ago

this is so cool! i just fished a tetra pack (tomato soup) and a milk carton out of the trash, and flattened them out. i will definitely be trying this process! love all your prints, as i always do. thanks so much for an idea we can do at home, without a printing press. very exciting!

@johnpuli3056 1 year ago

There are many steps to prepare the Tetrapaks these need to be explained to your followers I have learnt this after many failures .

@apple369 1 year ago

Beautiful prints, Ruth! I have a stack of washed and ready Tetrapaks for whenever inspiration strikes. It's one of my favourite ways to make printing plates.

@Katharine-000 1 year ago

I’m trying not to buy any art supplies for a bit but every time i see your videos i’m so drawn to the way the prints look, they have so much character! I’m guessing the specialist inks would be relatively pricey, is it worth trying this with some cheap oil paint or would i be wasting my time and making a horrible mess do you think?! I’m also working in a domestic space (and i’m clumsy!)…

@RichardBrown-ds9jt 8 months ago

Does anyone know where sheets of new tetra pack could be purchased?

@mariekedaalder5342 3 weeks ago

Dear Ruth, so how to make the Chine colle ? And you put your paper in water but I missed how long and what paper one can best use ? Thank you very much for sharing this key information !

@Go-Beyond11 1 year ago

Here’s my problem - I can get this to work fine but the pieces where I removed the shiny layer will not print at all. They are black with ink but the ink does not transfer. Any thoughts?