Category: Prints and Printmaking
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Artists and Amateurs: Etching in Eighteenth-Century France
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in new York has a wonderful practice of periodically assembling small, non-blockbuster exhibitions of works on paper from their enormously deep collections. These often go unnoticed in the press, but can surprise and delight visitors to the museum who come across them on their way to something else in the…
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Rembrandt's elephants
A Rembrandt drawing figures in a story in New Scientist today, about the search for the earliest example of an Asian Elephant known to European scientists. It was determined that the previous presumed example was, in fact, an African elephant, and records were searched for another example of a true Asian Elephant. It turns out…
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Belinda Del Pesco drypoint prints with acrylic sheets
Belinda Del Pesco has some fascinating posts about making drypoint prints using sheets of acrylic — commonly known under brand names like Plexiglas or Lexan — as the plates, instead of traditional metal plates. Drypoint has long been an alternative or addition to traditional etching techniques. It is advantageous in that scratching the lines directly…
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Barbara Pihos
Illinois artist Barbara Pihos works in the traditional printmaking techniques of etching and aquatint. She begins her landscapes with field sketches, which are the basis for more detailed compositions drawn directly into the acid resist on her zinc plates. She gives a brief overview of her process, and the etching/aquatint process in general, on her…
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Eye Candy for Today: John Hamilton Mortimer etching
Comedy (from Fifteen Etchings Dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds), John Hamilton Mortimer In the metropolitan Museum of Art. Use “Fullscreen” link and Download arrow. The outside dimentions of the sheet on which the etching is printed are roughly 12 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (29 x 19 cm). Another example of that wonderful quality of…
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Ukiyo-e Search
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints extending in time from the early eighteenth century to the early twentieth. It was followed by the early twentieth century genres of Shin-hanga and Sosaku-hanga, which carried forward some of the Ukiyo-e sensibilities while adding their own characteristics, particularly in the adoption of visual techniques from Western…