Etching is a printmaking technique where a plate is covered in varnish. The design is scratched through with a needle, exposing the metal. Acid is applied to etch lines into the exposed metal, while leaving covered areas untouched. The varnish is removed and the plate is inked to transfer the design to paper. Lines can also be scratched directly into the plate with a needle in a process called drypoint.
Etching is a printmaking technique where a plate is covered in varnish. The design is scratched through with a needle, exposing the metal. Acid is applied to etch lines into the exposed metal, while leaving covered areas untouched. The varnish is removed and the plate is inked to transfer the design to paper. Lines can also be scratched directly into the plate with a needle in a process called drypoint.
Etching is a printmaking technique where a plate is covered in varnish. The design is scratched through with a needle, exposing the metal. Acid is applied to etch lines into the exposed metal, while leaving covered areas untouched. The varnish is removed and the plate is inked to transfer the design to paper. Lines can also be scratched directly into the plate with a needle in a process called drypoint.
the copper printing plate. Engraving Woodcut, engraving and etching were the main methods of making prints before the invention of photography. To make an engraving, a plate, usually of copper, is cut with a burin (a sharp gouging tool). The plate is put in a press and ink rolled onto it. The ink is retained in the cuts and transferred to the paper. Etching Etching was one of the main methods of making prints before the invention of photography. In etching the printing plate is covered in varnish. The design is scratched through with a needle. Acid is applied, which bites into the exposed metal, but does not affect the covered areas, thus etching the design onto the plate. The varnish is removed, and the plate inked for transfer to paper. The longer the acid is applied, the deeper the lines are etched, and the darker they are and faint lines are 'stopped out' with varnish after only a little biting. Lines can be cut directly into the metal with a needle, a process known as drypoint. The metal thrown up by the needle - the burr - catches the ink and creates a particularly rich effect. Fake A fake is an object that has been tampered with for the purposes of fraud – for example, by adding a signature or creating a false provenance. Foreshorten If an object or person is foreshortened it is depicted as though receding from the viewer into the picture space. To achieve this effect successfully requires knowledge of the laws of perspective. Forgery A forgery is an object created in direct imitation of another artist’s manner with the intention to deceive the viewer.