Etching | Art techniques materials
Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal.In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other types of material. As a method of printmaking, it is, along with engraving, the most important technique for old master prints, and remains in wide use today. In a number of modern variants such as microfabrication etching and photochemical milling it is a crucial technique in much modern technology, including circuit boards,More info:wiki
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#10 Etching: 1, 5 March 1972 (L.155),More info:tate
This etching, dating from March 1972, is almost the last in the group of 156 prints known as the ‘156 Series’. It does not contain as much of the overt erotic imagery which characterises the series as a whole, although the naked female figure on the right of the composition has all the sexual exuberance of earlier images. In later life Picasso mastered a variety of print-making techniques which he employed with remarkable directness and vigour. The ‘156 Series’, in which he frequently combined a number of different techniques in one image, constitutes a virtuoso performance in this medium.
#9 JACK FAWDRY TATHAM,More info:jackfawdrytatham
#8 How Rembrandt Made His Etchings | Christie’s,More info:Christie’s
#7 COPPER PLATE ETCHING AND AQUATINT FOR BEGINNERS,More info:eventopia
#6 How illustrator Ugo Gattoni created his first drypoint etching,More info:digitalartsonline
#5 Drawing & Painting Journal The Artwork of Teresa Oaxaca,More info:teresaoaxaca
# 4 The Printed Image in the West: Etching,More info:metmuseum
While engraving evolved from the craft of goldsmithing, etching, in which the work of cutting into the metal is accomplished through the action of acid, is closely related to the armorer’s trade. A plate of metal is first covered with a layer of acid-resistant varnish or wax, called the “ground.” The artist then scratches through the ground with an etching needle to expose the metal beneath. When the design is complete, the plate is dipped in acid, which eats away the lines where the metal has been exposed. The depth of the lines depends on the length of time the plate is exposed to the acid. Once the ground has been removed, the metal plate, with its incised lines, can be printed in the same way as any intaglio plate. While the printing requires considerable craft, the incising of the coated plate with the etching needle can be done by anyone who knows how to draw, encouraging many painters to try their hand.
#3 The Printed Image in the West: Etching,More info:metmuseum
#2 ETCHING-STYLE TATTOOS BY MARCO MATARESE,More info:scene360
#1 Featured Art | ‘After Chardin’, Artist’s Proof Etching by Lucian Freud,More info:discover.goldmarkart
The words used to describe the paintings of Chardin – gentle, tender, graceful – are not commonly applied to Lucian Freud. They were, on the face of it, artists of polar opposites: unlike Freud, who seemed only to paint the penniless or the peeraged, Chardin was a great chronicler of the middle classes. Where Freud delighted in the morbid passage of time, Chardin gave us children engaged in the leisures of youth. His subjects were delicately described, with skin of buttermilk to Freud’s lard, those unflinching, yellow-grey swathes of flesh that belonged more properly to abattoir and butcher’s block.
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