BACK by popular demand !! Our Etching for Beginners course (formally known as Intro to Intaglio) is designed to give a good grounding in the techniques of drypoint and intaglio etching and the opportunity to produce a small edition of your own etchings to take home. The course is tutored by experienced and friendly etcher Ralph Overill and it will run for 3 […]
We’ve just added our Introduction to Intaglio course to the ‘Workshops’ page ! This course is designed for anyone new to etching who would like to get a good grounding in the techniques and an opportunity to produce a small edition of their own etchings to take home. The course will run for 3 weeks […]
So, it turns out that I didn’t degrease the plate thoroughly enough. After drying the plates I noticed dried on whiting powder in a couple of places so gave them another rinse, This showed up that the water was running off unevenly meaning that the plates weren’t degreased properly. For the second degrease I used […]
I did a drawing of one of the Avebury standing stones onto the coated aluminium plate using an etching needle. For this first stage I’m starting with a line drawing. Hopefully the drawing will develop as I go along ! To etch the aluminium I’ve decided to use the Copper Sulphate solution method. I got […]
Having done quite a lot of reading I have now purchased everything I need to make a start (hopefully !!). I bought everything from one place – Intaglio Printmaker. I already had some offcut pieces of aluminium so I’ve chosen to use Copper sulphate as the etching method. I also bought a magnesium carbonate block […]
So, this week we purchased this little beauty ! It’s a Polymetaal A2 etching press. We’ve had our eyes open for an etching press for a while now and when this one became available we snapped it up. It’s pre-owned and has been lovingly looked after and it came with the blankets and the stand […]