New Short Courses 2021_SOFT GROUND ETCHING

SOFT GROUND ETCHING

Short courses in Kommetjie, Cape Town

Open to all – no previous experience necessary

The next course (APRIL/MAY)
will give you an in depth introduction to intaglio printmaking,
with the focus on creating a SOFT GROUND ETCHING

ETCHING is an intaglio printmaking process.
The word ‘intaglio’ is derived from the Italian word intaglione,
meaning to engrave or cut.
This covers several techniques all involving the incision of drawings and designs
onto a metal plate using the process of acid biting, or ‘etching’.

IN THE BEGINNERS ETCHING COURSE SERIES

YOU CAN LEARN HOW TO:

• create your image matrix (etching plate) using
• hard ground (line),
• soft ground (line and texture) and
• aquatint (tone) processes, as well as
• how to ink up and print your etching plate.