Etching is often an artistic discipline unexplored by many, put off by challenging and mystifying techniques, hazardous chemicals and working environments. Beginner students will explore intaglio printmaking techniques using aluminium, a cheap and effective metal for intaglio printmaking.
Students will be taken through the various methods of intaglio printmaking from dry point, hard ground, soft ground and aquatint. Students will be guided through their first hard ground line etching copying the masters off old, they will then make adjustments to their plate using an etchers tools of the trade the burnisher and scraper. Along with the traditional needle these three…
