Sentences with phrase «then etches the plate»

Scratches are marks that characterize an etching in its most traditional form: an artist scratches into a wax coating on a copper plate, and then etches the plate with acid.

Not exact matches

Sipp, a printmaker, is creating the illustrations by drawing on glass and then using a photographic process to make etching plates from the drawings, so he can do limited - edition prints.

The prints go though the flatbed etching press twice — once with the inked up plate for the landscape a second time when the print has dried to add the dot and then an encaustic veneer or varnish is added last, so they are encased in wax.

For her edition for the Whitechapel Gallery Ramsden has made a single gesture or «swipe» directly onto the copper etching plate, which has then been printed to create a varied edition of 35 sugar lift aquatints.

Instead of the image deriving from an existing sketch, the artist has drawn directly onto two etching plates in two layers, which are then printed.

The etched plates could then be run through a press or printed by hand.

I use printmaking as a kind of re-enactment of the rise and fall of industrial economies, bringing an etching plate from raw material, to finished product, and then to ruination.

Gueorguieva then created etching and litho plates for each structure, generating appropriate collage materials that were then draped over the metal and the thin layers of epoxy clay.

Hint: a copper plate is coated with a light sensitive material which had been exposed to a film positive, and then etched.

Jamie draws on large smooth plates of wet clay, by reacting to draw lines and create forms using both his hands, fingers, and a large needle to mark shapes as he etches incisions, scratches, or stipples, which he then quickly scrapes or smooths out, in order to start again.

The plates are then sealed and then inked up and printed in intaglio or relief on damp paper using an etching press.

Each print is an impression made from an untransformed doily that was placed in soft ground on a zinc plate, then etched and printed.