#softground etching

[ode2miss-shared-epiphany4you]

“Theircoming”

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Hard ground and soft ground etched- acids! solvents! mineral spirits! I went over it with drypoint too. Aquatint for the elephant shadows…it’s where you put the copper plate on a rack, close the door, and turn a handle really fast 20 something times to make a cloud of rosin that evenly coats the plate. There were a lot of shifts in the plate such as using a roulette tool to give textured shadows to the other idols and scraping, sanding, and burnishing parts of where I’d mistakenly drawn to then drypoint over. These were based on some minuscule animalistic beads I’ve got that stand on a shelf. For the cloverlets I did Chine-collé by cutting out and gluing this green dyed paper so that I can carefully lay it on its back on the plate to then align paper on top and print . I have some more that I will share later but this was good to work with my hands I could have done better at wiping the plate of its ink but let me know what you think

[artprintresidence]

Ron Abram

Art Print Residence is pleased to welcome Ron Abram from United States

[huariqueje]

Firmament  -  Tuula Lehtinen , 1992.

Finnish, b. 1956 -

Etching , aquatint, softground,   60 × 80 cm.

[arthuntblog]

Caio Fonseca (b 1959) [USA] - ‘Notations, I’, 1998. Softground etching with chine collé (20.3x28 cm).

[worldsandemanations]

Caio Fonseca (b 1959) [USA] - ‘Notations, I’, 1998. Softground etching with chine collé

[abwwia]

Laura Volkerding, Eclipse, 1970, softground etching, engraving and chine-colle, plate: 15 7⁄8 x 19 3⁄4 in. (40.3 x 50.2 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase

[oliversternart]

The first etching I made at Second State Press. I had to learn the studio and new techniques like spray aquatint. I went in with no plan, starting with drypoint and then heavy handed layers of softground and aquatint. It started to feel like I had started over from scratch, and I realized I didn’t know how to anticipate what the copper would do. I knew I had a lot to learn.

[greatpets]

Prints

[housekats]

‘sometime (i, ii, iii, iv)’ (etching suite), 2020, softground etching on stonehenge paper, each plate approx. 3 x 4”, variable edition

[lauhonglam]

Rumor

2018

Etching on Paper

15x20 cm

[ode2miss-shared-epiphany4you]

“Your Heir”

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Expiriment with Chine Collé using my mothers vintage wrapping paper. The subject is my grandmothers clasped mother of pearl box, an heirloom that has another like it. I chose to aquatint the the plate to get a gradation in tones and I went over in drypoint to emphasize the texture of the shell.. .

[drawinglobster]

Happy new year! Here’s this year’s holiday card! It’s a softground etching!

[huariqueje]

Observation II  -  Tuula Lehtinen , 1992.

Finnish, b. 1956 -

Etching , aquatint, softground,   60 × 80 cm.

[blackheartpress]

Still not dead yet. Sorta.

Softground etching

[arthuntblog]

Caio Fonseca (b 1959) [USA] - ‘Notations, V’, 1998. Softground etching with chine collé (20.3x28 cm).

[worldsandemanations]

Landscape II - Tuula Lehtinen , 1995. Finnish, b. 1956 - Photo Etching , Softground, Aquatint