Print making: etching
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- Опубликовано: 10 май 2017
- MA student of Printmaking Peter Wylie shows the traditional techniques of etching, using acid, smoke, rosin, plate and stylus. The process has been used by artists from Rembrandt and Goya to the present.
You can see etchings by Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, Jim Dine and others in the exhibition:
The American Dream: pop to the present
9 March - 18 June 2017
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Sponsored by Morgan Stanley
Supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art
This film was made in collaboration with the printmaking tutors, technicians and students at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL.
Find out more about printmaking courses at UAL www.arts.ac.uk/camberwell/cour...
I wish you had explained what you were doing step by step. I have no clue how any of that worked.
Pretty cool feeling to know Rembrandt and Goya used the same technique and process. Very cool.
The Plume! The plume was the most romantic segment of the presentation… But very interesting! Happy New 2018th Year! Many more creative etchings!
Fascinating process.
It is exactly how most artists still make aquatint and etching. The result is beautiful. We can't all make rembrants and goyas, because that would be copying. If you want to see how it is made, look elsewhere for etching and aquatint.
Lovely video. With what you remove the ink from the plate before printing?
hello I have an antique etched steel plate that has very fine lines and intriquit detail. in recent years it has deveoloped black fungus looking rust and Im not sure how to keep the plate clean. any suggestions please
Hi thinking of taking ethching as a hobby can normal oil based lino inks be used for etchings.
can someone explain what are the actual series of things he is doing to make the etching?
You'd think a video called "How to make an etching" would be a bit more informative, wouldn't you?
Probably, the vehicles number plates...
0:20 Drawing with technique called sugar which is diluted with water
0:30 He applied a liquid varnish with hydrophobic oily base or liquid ground
0:36 with hot water remove the previous drawing with "sugar" leaving only the area of the drawing free, everything else is blocked by the varnish
1:15 Then, he put the plate in the resin box, which contains rosin resin there is a cloud of particles that slowly and uniformly are deposited on the plate creating a texture on the plate
1:50 later by heat melts the resin fixing it on the plate. this resin is resistant to acid, also creates a pattern of texture on the plate where there are microscopic areas that are not protected
2:04 submerges the plate in a probably nitric acid bath, with the help of a feather prevents bubbles form by the reaction of the acid with the plate (most likely zinc)
2:17 Clean the plate by removing both the resin and the protective varnish
2:23 Again cover the plate with varnish called "hard ground", with a rubber roller apply a homogeneous layer heating the plate at the same time
2:42 with a flame helps to fix the smoke to the wax that contains the hard ground to achieve a propitious surface to draw with a metal tip
2:53 with the metal tip draws and at the same time removes the varnish layer leaving unprotected areas where he drew. in the video it is not noticeable but after he returned to submerge the plate in acid, after which he cleaned the plate leaving it ready for printing.
3:01 - 3:23 is the process of inking the plate, then the excess ink on the plate is cleaned leaving only ink on the incisions and textures previously made
3:29 - 3:42 wet a piece of cotton paper so that the fiber of the same swells and allows you to receive the ink from the plate correctly. With the help of a roll and dry paper the excess water from the paper.
4:12 Finally the plate and paper are placed carefully on the press, and by pressing the rollers, the ink is transferred from the incisions and textures to the paper.This process can be done several times, achieving several impressions
@@hsuehss THANK YOU!!
That was a lot of effort for something I did in 20 minutes in high school a decade ago with better equipment and technology and got a much better finished piece. If this guy is paying for classes to do this, I recommend he look for a new teacher, because he's getting scammed.
Well obviously it would take you less time using better equipment and technology... This guy is doing it for historical purposes, showing you the traditional process (see channel, 'The British Museum').
The guy said he was a student doing it as a project. He's not a curator. He's paying someone to teach him antiquated ways to do something that he seems to imply is the only way to get the results he's getting. As someone who knows graphic design, I'm saying he's being scammed out of his money.
I would be all for a curator's corner where an expert explains the equipment, process, and history of this stuff, but don't call your video "how to make an etching" (then change the title after reading complaints in the comments) and show a relative novice explaining things he doesn't fully understand to an audience who subscribed to a channel like The British Museum. An audience who might want to actually learn something.
For many artists the process is just as much (if not more) a part of the art than the result. If you think efficiency is the point of art, you might want to reevaluate that opinion. I'm a graphic designer, digital illustrator, and traditional artist (oil paint, gouache, linocut, etc.), and I value each of my artforms for different reasons. He even explained why he loves this medium in the video.
@@Juliana-Bub I don't thing efficiency is the point of art. I think wasting time means you'll produce less art, learn and evolve less as an artist, create less art that you're proud of and other people value. I'm a blacksmith, woodworker, 3d modeler, diorama modeler, prop maker, all of these I've done at one time or another professionally. I also dabble in hand embroidery, jewelry making, sculpting, and so many other art forms I'm not sure I can list them all. I spent the first 2 weeks of October making my own black walnut ink. I also value every artform I learn, and the process of spending a few days perfecting a piece is reason enough to invest that time.
I still say this guy is getting scammed by someone teaching him at a subpar level. The man is paying money for someone to teach him how to do something poorly and slowly, without any real room for growth as an artist. And if a teacher tells you it has to be done slowly, and you're paying them by the hour, maybe that's something to consider.
@@Wanderer_of_Sol While I see your point and respect your exploration of different media, it's clear that you don't have any experience with etching and perhaps other physical printmaking processes using a press such as lithography or woodcut/linocut. The method that you call "slow" is literally the only way to produce an etching. You could make a similar argument about something simple like a Rothko painting or even an Andy Warhol silkscreen painting which I'm sure now has some kind of a digital AI filter version to quickly produce Andy-Warholesque images on your computer or phone. However, you will never be able to get the same quality of a huge, completely handmade Warhol piece printed out of your Canon inkjet printer....in much the same way you cannot replicate the physical quality of good quality Arches/Reeves paper with an etching printed onto it (the plate makes an embossing on the paper).
Usually etching classes are not "pay by the hour" it's pay for a set number of classes which includes the instructor's time and instruction, some of the materials (lab fee).
If you dislike the artwork shown here I'm just not seeing how you're using that to assume that somehow the teacher is scamming him? And I'm not a fan of the artwork either, but he's obviously fulfilling a prompt from the producers of this "American Dream" series of short youtube videos.
Give etching a try sometime. It's far more conventional than many of the cool forms of art you've already explored and I'm surprised you haven't already tried it!! Enjoy.
Poor guy is getting roasted in the comments.
IGNORANTLY roasted indeed.
So much effort to make something look trashy in a very deliberate way. Did Rembrandt and Goya make things look like they got dragged behind a car?
Its not distressed well either, I understand the effect he was going for, but it looks so obvious I assume he wanted that and its all meta art bullshit but its not that great to look at.
But, indeed, it looked like the numver plate of the auto... So it must be behind the car and If it disintegrates from the hulk of the vehicle, then it is getting dragged…
Neither of them had a chance to experiment in this field like that as the era of the cars arrived much later...
I adore intaglio printmaking, and in fact it is my specialty, but must say that I really don't like this print. See? You can't please everyone.
The alphabets are not really pronounced or etched evenly, and I don't think it was intentional, rather poor etching technique. The final composition is not attractive. The underlying mark, which is probably because of uneven acid malfunction, overshadows the letters. Overall, any printmaker would confirm, this is a very amateurish effort. By the way, Rembrandt never used 'sugar lift'. The technique was introduced by Serger and used from 18th century. But if you are going to take Rembrandt and Goya's names in the same breath as your art, please practice more and come back with a better print. The logo of "British museum" does not make you a better printmaker. It just shields you from truthful reviews. Anyways. Good luck.
much talk for such an underwhelming piece. Laaaaaaame
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Seriously a sad sad product by a 'MA' student...
Awful stunted printmaking 'art'. He has the gall to mention Rembrandt and Goya yet cannot even draw.
The "artist" is hardly in a tradition. Unless he attempts figuration and to copy the master Goya he is fantasizing about his link to tradition.
Not impressed. A lot of, 'faffing about', to have achieved such a poor end result.
The accompanying BS, didn't help much either.