Practical Guide to Etching and Other Intaglio Printmaking Techniques

Advance your art in metal. Produce extraordinary prints in any of these ways:

1. Etch your designs into metal plate.
2. Produce fine drawings in watercolor or India ink using the aquatint method.
3. Delineate beautiful shapes and shades by hand-tooling or burnishing metal plates (the mezzotint technique).
4. Use the drypoint technique, with only a sharp-pointed needle, to cut fine lines on copper.
5. Use intaglio printmaking, the reproduction process using a plate with sunken letters and designs.

This comprehensive course includes tips on selecting the proper metal, and on preparation, proofing, and printing. There are 209 illustrations to guide you.

Author — Manly Banister.

Paperback. 128 pages. 8" × 11" (20 cm × 28 cm).