Magical Secrets About Line Etching & Engraving: The Step-by-Step Art of Incised Lines

by Catherine Brooks

Cultural Writing. Art. Magical Secrets are sudden flashes of insight that help you make sense of something you care about. If you care about etching, engraving, and drypoint (a form of engraving), you will find revelations here. Author Catherine Brooks is a master printer at Crown Point Press, printers and publishers of etchings since 1962, and she draws on the venerable history of that institution to create an inspirational and highly usable how-to book. Crown Point Press founder, Kathan Brown, adds an appendix on hand-wiping and printing that teaches you to ink and print etchings with Crown Point's superlative quality. The practical information is artist-centered, with illustrations and discussions of line etchings and engravings enhanced by quotations from the artists who made them. The book includes a DVD on which Catherine Brooks and Kathan Brown demonstrate the processes and artists are shown using them.

Genres: Art

207 pages, Hardcover

First published April 4, 2007

Reviews

[Rebecca Miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is the equivalent of a printmaking masterclass. The book and video are incredibly inspiring. I could practically smell the asphaltum and feel the roughness of the tarlatan. It made me drag out all of my old printmaking tools and dust off my inks.

[Sue · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent book that describes the beginning process of copper-plate etching using hard and soft grounds.