enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: copper plate etching technique for wood

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Wood engraving - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_engraving

    Leather-covered sandbag, wood blocks and tools (burins), used in wood engraving. Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and prints using relatively low pressure.

  3. Engraving - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engraving

    Other terms often used for printed engravings are copper engraving, copper-plate engraving or line engraving. Steel engraving is the same technique, on steel or steel-faced plates, and was mostly used for banknotes, illustrations for books, magazines and reproductive prints, letterheads and similar uses from about 1790 to the early 20th century, when the technique became less popular, except ...

  4. Art and engraving on United States banknotes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_engraving_on...

    Art and engraving on United States banknotes. In early 18th century Colonial America, engravers began experimenting with copper plates as an alternative medium to wood. Applied to the production of paper currency, copper-plate engraving allowed for greater detail and production during printing. It was the transition to steel engraving that ...

  5. Etching - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etching

    Etching by Daniel Hopfer, who is believed to have been the first to apply the technique to printmaking. 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. [1] In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other ...

  6. Intaglio (printmaking) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intaglio_(printmaking)

    Intaglio (/ ɪnˈtæli.oʊ, - ˈtɑːli -/ in-TAL-ee-oh, -⁠TAH-lee-; [1] Italian: [inˈtaʎʎo]) is the family of printing and printmaking techniques in which the image is incised into a surface and the incised line or sunken area holds the ink. [2] It is the direct opposite of a relief print where the parts of the matrix that make the image ...

  7. Aquatint - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatint

    Goya, No. 32 of Los Caprichos (1799, Por que fue sensible).This is a fairly rare example of a print entirely in aquatint. [5]In intaglio printmaking techniques such as engraving and etching, the artist makes marks into the surface of the plate (in the case of aquatint, a copper or zinc plate) that are capable of holding ink.

  8. Photogravure - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogravure

    Photogravure. Photogravure (in French héliogravure) is a process for printing photographs, also sometimes used for reproductive intaglio printmaking. It is a photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is grained (adding a pattern to the plate) and then coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which had been exposed to a film positive ...

  9. Stipple engraving - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipple_engraving

    Stipple engraving is a technique used to create tone in an intaglio print by distributing a pattern of dots of various sizes and densities across the image. The pattern is created on the printing plate either in engraving by gouging out the dots with a burin, or through an etching process. [1] Stippling was used as an adjunct to conventional ...

  1. Ads

    related to: copper plate etching technique for wood