![]() The process was developed in medieval Europe where it was first used to decorate metal armour. He/she then places a sheet of damp paper, face down, onto the inked plate, and takes a printed impression using an etching press to exert the high, rolling pressure needed to force the damp paper into the plate’s etched grooves, thus picking up the wet ink and transferring image to paper. ![]() If printing intaglio (the traditional method for printing etchings though, occasionally, they are relief printed) he/she rubs a thin layer of printing ink into the etched grooves of the plate. When the etching process is complete, the plate is removed from the acid tray and washed clean of acid. Wherever the ground has been scratched away, the acid bites grooves into the exposed metal. The plate is then immersed in a tray of acid. He/she then draws a composition into that ground with a fine etching needle or other tools – the marks made thus scraping away the acid- resistant ground to reveal the bare metal. Developed since the 16th century, intaglio processes have been used by artists such as Dürer, Rembrandt and Goya and lend themselves to fine line work as well as to deeply textured or embossed images.Ī print produced from a smooth metal plate, the surface of which the artist covers with an acid-resistant ground. Printing is carried out, often on damp paper, using an etching press to force the damp paper into the inked grooves of the plate to pick up the impression. An imprint produced by a method in which ink is rubbed into the grooves of a design made in a (usually metal or collaged) printing plate. ![]()
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