Bobby! Intaglio Process
Posted November 20, 2010 by icky in Posters & Prints
This is a new intaglio print. I'm showing it in 6 steps: 1) Is the original hard ground, which came out a little too light.2) 1st spray paint aquatint, came out too chunky so I applied a...
3) 2nd spray paint aquatint
4) I burnished and scaped it to try and re-achieve some tone
5) I re-hard grounded it to bring back some lines
6) Scraped and burnished again to reduce some of the contrast
The image is from a photo of rioting in Northern Ireland after Bobby Sands died that Kevin posted about awhile back (but the background was made-up).
Intaglio is a new process to me. As opposed to other printing processes, with intaglio you can keep working one image over and over, both additively and reductively. I really like it, though the printing and inking is pretty labor intensive.
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It's true, this looks like it could be some folks running around the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh during the G20 summit last year (so many hills)...
Cool! I never really understood how intaglio worked...
Icky, you might end up being the first "respectable" printmaker among us, with all these fancy prints!
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this is beautiful, icky, nice work! it's interesting to see the fine lines and shading, so different from your block prints.
(the background looks a lot like Pittsburgh!)
Posted by: mary at November 20, 2010 4:33 PM