Etching

Line Drawing

First steps on copper plates

This is a course ideal for complete beginners who wants to learn step by step the intaglio printmaking process.

3 Days

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Soft Ground

Lines and textures

You can develop a composition through line, texture and tone by etching a copper plate. The artist draws on a piece of paper and when the paper is lifted, it removes the wax where the pencil pressed. We will show you how to make imprints of other things besides a pencil, like leaves or lace.

2 Days

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Aquatint (Basic)

Painterly Intaglio Processes 

First steps on copper plates

(working on tonal effects, gray scale)

Aquatint is used for making tones and is composed of fine particles of rosin or asphaltum

3 Days

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Sugar lift

Painterly effects, very expressive and dynamic

This technique allows you to draw directly on the plate using brushes or other tools, keeping the thickness and fluidity of the line. This method give rise to spontaneous and varied results.

3 Days

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Aquatint (Advanced)

Basic Aquatint + Sugar lift + Spit bite

Learn different variants of Aquatint in a very complete course.

5 Days

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Spit Bite Aquatint

A thin wash drawing effect

Spit bite aquatint
We can show you how you can bite the plate unevenly, by painting with acid over the plate surface.

1 Day

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Soap ground

White background texture effect 

This course brings us to one of the slopes of the aquatint technique which involves drawing the image on the plate with soap to get variations of tonal values, at once, from the clearest to darkest.

5 Days

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Tonner aquatint

Get into a wide range of tones, textures and shadows

The toner powder creates a microdot pattern like an irregular grid. This technique consists on manual creation of watercolors with brush, to get a wide range of tones, textures and shadows.

3 Days

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Transferring images

Transfer photocopied drawings on copper plates

We can use the images of the copier and transfer them into a copper plate to be etched by traditional hard ground techniques.

2 Days

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Etching and Aquatint

Line Drawing & Painterly Intaglio Printmaking

First steps on copper plates

5 Days

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Electro-etching

Electro-etching is a less toxic printmaking technique which uses electricity instead of acid to etch the plate.
We are offering electro-etching personalized courses from now on.

5 Days

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Drypoint

Drawing straight on a plate, without acid 

First steps on copper plates

Drypoint are created by using a steel tip to scratch the surface of the metal. Drypoint is done without acid, drawing directly on a copper plate.

2 Days

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Mezzotint

From solid black to midtones and highlights

Mezzotint is a direct technique where a metal plate is indented so that it prints solid black. Mid-tones and highlights are then scraped and burnished back into the plate to create the image.

2 Days

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Engraving on plastic

Using manual and mechanical tools on plastic

We will be experimenting with a number of direct tools: punches, scrapers and other tools to scratch the surface. And we will combine them with electric tools to create the matrix. We will not be using acids in this course.

3 Days

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Intaglio printing process (basic)

First steps on copper plates

Learn all the tricks of the intaglio printing process by the hand of a Master Printer.

1 Day

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Intaglio color multiplate printing (advanced)

Printing different copper plates overlayed with a perfect registration system

3 Days

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Chine collé

Chine collé can be used in contemporary printmaking
adhering a thin paper under the ink during the printing process. As a result we obtain a richer image in textures and chromatics.

3 Days

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