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uhlrik In reply to Graveborn-Sovereign [2005-05-31 17:05:06 +0000 UTC]

intaglio printing is a very old (over 500 years old) process of incising the image into a (usually metal) plate in reverse, then filling the recesses with ink and putting it through a press with damp rag-paper to pull the ink out of the crevices with massive pressure.

The most common form of intaglio is etching (like this one) where acid is used as the means of eating into the plate itself, with a resist substance used to protect any part the artist doesn't wish to burn. In aquatint, the artist also covers open areas of the plate with many very fine dots of a resist like rosin powder or fog-applied spraypaint (I used the latter here) to burn tone into large areas, in stages where more and more gets covered in time to allow for darker tone. I use zinc plates, but some artists prefer copper. All I use copper for is the occasional drypoint however (a different intaglio form where the marks are carved directly into the plate with tools).

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Graveborn-Sovereign In reply to uhlrik [2005-05-31 18:34:41 +0000 UTC]

damn, thats a really complicated process, compared to my linoleum thing hahaha

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uhlrik In reply to Graveborn-Sovereign [2005-05-31 23:39:55 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, etching's a lot more involved than relief printing, but you can make much larger editions if you want to (I usually make small editions anyway, but there you have it.).

If you wanna see complicated and with lots of steps, try lithography sometime. Oi. speaking of which.. I've got a litho I need to post soon.

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Graveborn-Sovereign In reply to uhlrik [2005-06-01 13:56:24 +0000 UTC]

ill be sure to comment!

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