PRINTING
PRINTING
The print process makes marks that are different from painting and drawing. Your ideas are translated by the techniques. By making several prints you can try images out with variations in a way which is not possible in painting.
Prints have a special beauty and have been valued by so many artists. Picasso used monoprint to work out ideas, and because the effects are so pleasing.
ETCHING
Etching is a process used to cut lines and make textures in a metal plate. These grooves carry the ink, and you need a press to transfer the ink to the paper. I have a small press, made in the 1890s. I use safe etching chemicals instead of the traditional acid.
Etching has been used by so many artists from Rembrandt to the present day, and at the moment there is renewed interest in etching, and combined methods of printmaking.
A taster of intaglio printing and drypoint, combined with relief printing gives lovely results.
ETCHING OF A GIRL
MONOPRINTING
GARDENER WITH TATTOOS
