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Non-toxic printmaking /

By: Graver, Mark.
Series: Printmaking handbooks: Publisher: London : A & C Black, 2011Description: 127 pages : illustrations (some color), plates ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781408113257; 9781408113257:; 1408113252.Subject(s): Sustainability | Prints -- Technique | Artists' materials -- Safety measuresDDC classification: 760.28
Contents:
Introduction: Why non-toxic? -- Materials -- Acrylic resist etching on copper -- Acrylic-resist hard grounds -- Acrylic soft grounds -- Acrylic-resist aquatint -- Wash grounds, lift grounds, white grounds -- Etching copper with ferric chloride -- Saline sulphate etch -- Inks, Inking, paper and printing -- Colour, chine-collé and multi-plate printing -- Non-chemical processes -- A survey: Printmaking going green? -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Some thoughts on non-toxic printmaking -- Appendix 2: Original prints and reproductions -- a need for definition -- Featured artists -- Supplies -- Website resources.
Summary: Mark Graver puts the case for non-toxic printmaking and then discusses the various technical factors (both materials and equipment) to consider when etching with acrylic resists, making aquatints, etching in general, using drypoint, engraving, making mezzotints and collagraphs and using photopolymers.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Why non-toxic? -- Materials -- Acrylic resist etching on copper -- Acrylic-resist hard grounds -- Acrylic soft grounds -- Acrylic-resist aquatint -- Wash grounds, lift grounds, white grounds -- Etching copper with ferric chloride -- Saline sulphate etch -- Inks, Inking, paper and printing -- Colour, chine-collé and multi-plate printing -- Non-chemical processes -- A survey: Printmaking going green? -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Some thoughts on non-toxic printmaking -- Appendix 2: Original prints and reproductions -- a need for definition -- Featured artists -- Supplies -- Website resources.

Mark Graver puts the case for non-toxic printmaking and then discusses the various technical factors (both materials and equipment) to consider when etching with acrylic resists, making aquatints, etching in general, using drypoint, engraving, making mezzotints and collagraphs and using photopolymers.

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