Intaglio printmaking

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Tetrapak Collagraphs are an innovative type of intaglio printmaking technique. This technique involves the use of recycled materials, such as orange, milk ,soy cartons. You can use it as a rectangu…

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Intaglio printmaking is a printmaking method using marks incised into a plate. Ink is worked into the recesses of the plate and is usually printed onto dampened paper through an etching press. Intaglio printmaking can create strong positive marks, interesting texture and tone – these results shouldn’t be missed out on if you don’t have … Continue reading "Printing Intaglio Without a Press: Tetra Pak Collagraph"

“Temperance” 4 x 6” intaglio with relief roll and monoprint on 8 x 10” paper . . . #intaglio #etching #printmaking #printmaker #artschool… | Instagram

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Intaglio printing is the opposite of relief printing, in that the printing is done from ink that is below the surface of the plate.

These plates from found materials are experimental and you can’t predict what will happen,

Dry point is the most direct form of intaglio. The artist simply takes a sharp point and uses it to scratch into the metal plate to create the image. There is quite a variety of tools that can be used for this. Here's a video of Wayne Thiebaud doing that at Crown Point Press. As you watch it pay attention to the different ways he marks the plate, from gentle to rough and in-between. He even seems to be scratching into it with a pocket knife at one point. Here's Thiebaud's print. Notice the…

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It's really quite difficult to photograph a drypoint plate, it seems. Anyway...today I am busy scratching away. . . . . #intaglio #drypoint #etching #workinprogress #circusfreak #printmaker

“As human beings, I think we are always walking a line between the creative and destructive. We are both compelled by our wild nature into new forms of living, while also aching for the stability and constancy of belonging.” © 2015 Toko-pa Turner (Click on the picture to read more) Etching by Carrie Lingscheit