The lines shown above were cut with a burin into a copper plate, then printed on paper. This image is a small detail (enlarged 2X) from my print, Thought, which I engraved and printed in 1970.
Every engraving is unique in some way. Working processes often vary from one plate to the next, and different artists usually favor different methods of working.
This presentation has 6 pages, about 216 KB.
This presentation has 54 pages, about 7.9 MB. (Caution: May be a long download.) The presentation describes how I designed and engraved the plate for Knight, Bird & Burin.
This presentation has 46 pages, about 5.9 MB. (Caution: Long download.) The presentation describes how I printed the plate for Knight, Bird & Burin.
(The plate Knight, Bird & Burin, featured in two presentations above, may be seen in the collection of the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri in Columbia.)
My channel on YouTube. Currently, I have five videos about engraving and printmaking. (One of the five videos may be seen at bottom of this page.)
Links to download three presentations (PDF files) about engraving and printing.
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