Full Description
This is your essential guide to less harmful, but equally effective, environmentally friendly printmaking methods.
Traditional printmaking techniques expose the artist and the environment to a multitude of toxic materials. In this book, Mark Graver puts the case for non-toxic printmaking and discusses the replication of traditional techniques with less harmful, but equally effective, environmentally friendly methods.
This book covers engraving, etching with acrylic resists, using drypoint, making aquatints, mezzotints and collagraphs, and using photopolymers as well as combining various printmaking techniques.
Highly illustrated wit the works of artists from around the world, this practical and inspiring book contains everything you need to know about switching to a non-toxic printmaking practice.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Why Non-Toxic?
Materials
Metals
1. Acrylic Resist Etching on Copper
2. Acrylic-Resist Hard Grounds
3. Acrylic Soft Grounds
4. Acrylic-Resist Aquatint
5. Wash Grounds, Lift Grounds, White Ground
6. Etching Copper with Ferric Chloride
7. Saline Sulphate Etch
8. Inks, Inking, Paper and Printing
9. Colour, Chine-Coll and Multi-Plate Printing 98
10. Non-Chemical Processes
11. A Survey: Is Printmaking Going Green? By Indrani Gall
12. Conclusion
Appendix 1 - Some Thoughts on Non-Toxic Printmaking
Appendix 2 - Original Prints and Reproductions - A Need for Definition
Featured Artists
Suppliers
Website Resources
Bibliography
Index
