The Boss
Artwork measures 5”x7” print on 9’x12” paper.
Hand Pulled Single Plate Intaglio/ Etching: Signed and Numbered in a limited edition of 15.
Created in spring of 2019 in collaboration with and in residence with Pegboard Press, as a featured artist at Gathered Glassblowing Studio and Gallery.
Paper is an off-white yellow toned beige and ink is an almost blue black (Paynes grey
[ See Below for more details about the printmaking process]
Artwork measures 5”x7” print on 9’x12” paper.
Hand Pulled Single Plate Intaglio/ Etching: Signed and Numbered in a limited edition of 15.
Created in spring of 2019 in collaboration with and in residence with Pegboard Press, as a featured artist at Gathered Glassblowing Studio and Gallery.
Paper is an off-white yellow toned beige and ink is an almost blue black (Paynes grey
[ See Below for more details about the printmaking process]
Artwork measures 5”x7” print on 9’x12” paper.
Hand Pulled Single Plate Intaglio/ Etching: Signed and Numbered in a limited edition of 15.
Created in spring of 2019 in collaboration with and in residence with Pegboard Press, as a featured artist at Gathered Glassblowing Studio and Gallery.
Paper is an off-white yellow toned beige and ink is an almost blue black (Paynes grey
[ See Below for more details about the printmaking process]
More about the Intaglio print making process:
( from wikipedia)
Intaglio is the family of printing and printmaking techniques in which the image is incised into a surface and the incised line or sunken area holds the ink. (It is the direct opposite of a relief print where the parts of the matrix that make the image stand above the main surface - examples of which you may be familiar with would be wood block printing, or even potato printing!)
In traditional etching, a metal plate [in this case, copper] is covered with a waxy ground which is resistant to acid.
the artist then scratches off the ground with a pointed etching needle. where the artist wants a line to appear in the finished piece, exposing the bare metal.
The plate is then dipped in a bath of acid, or has acid washed over it. The acid "bites" into the metal (it undergoes a redox reaction) to a depth depending on time and acid strength, leaving behind the drawing (as carved into the wax) on the metal plate. The remaining ground is then cleaned off the plate.
For first and renewed uses the plate is inked in any chosen non-corrosive ink all over and the surface ink drained and wiped clean, leaving ink in the etched forms.
The plate is then put through a high-pressure printing press together with a sheet of paper (often moistened to soften it). The paper picks up the ink from the etched lines, making a print.
