Guest Teacher Angélica Mirauda

GREEN ETCHING COURSE + HAYTER TECHNIQUE INTENSIVE WEEKEND

28-29th January, 2017

“Grabado Verde”, as Mirauda calls it, is a new and environmentally friendly technique. The intention is not to replace the traditional printing methods, but it take advantage its qualities to make prints without impacting the environment.

The prints are made of “brick” matrices (packaging for milk, wine or other liquid foods) that reproduce the marks we have done on them, as well as their own marks and textures, when they are printed on paper.

By definition, “calcographic” engraving proceed of the greek words “chalcos” and “graphia” means an engraving or incised in copper. Over the time this term extends to all printmaking techniques made on other materials, such as zinc, brass and recently on plexiglas or cardboard boxes.

From the thirties, the great masters Henry Goetz and Stanley William Hayter suggested the idea that any material can be used as a reproducible matrix. Goetz used carborundum during the matrix creation and Hayter printed different colors at the same time by working the ink viscosity and with hard or soft rollers.