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Colour etching / Nigel Oxley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Printmaking handbooksPublication details: London : A. & C. Black, 2007.Description: 128 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780713668209 (pbk.)
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Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 760.28 OXL 1 Available T00461799
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this book, Nigel Oxley describes fully the techniques of etching and
aquatint employed by the artists who worked with him at Kelpra Studio
where he established a reputation for using intaglio processes to
create full colour images. Dame Elisabeth Frink, John Piper, John
Hoyland, Jim Dine and Patrick Heron are illustrated within and the use
of multi-plates is written with great detail. The author introduced the
use of carborundum and polymer plates to the studio and the book
includes step-by-step descriptions of these techniques.

Having editioned for many years the author relates his experience of
complex colour and plate combinations clearly enabling the reader to
hav comprehensive insight to the work of the many artists illustrated
within this book.

This book is a valuable practical guide for the beginner and for those
wishing to develop their printing and etching skills. For those
interested in printmaking it provides a unique insight into the demands
of a professional print.

Includes index.

Includes bibliography (p. 126) and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

11 27 37 96 103

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgements (p. 7)
  • Preface (p. 9)
  • 1 Materials and Studio (p. 13)
  • Materials
  • Preparation of the plate
  • Working the plate
  • Etching the plate
  • Printing the plate
  • Studio
  • Metal plates
  • Copper
  • Zinc
  • Steel
  • 2 Plate Preparation and Wax Grounds (p. 18)
  • Cutting plates
  • Varnish
  • Degrease
  • Grounds
  • Hard ground
  • Transferring the image
  • Smoking the ground
  • Needling the plate
  • Soft ground
  • Soft-ground textures
  • 3 Without Needles (p. 28)
  • Open bite
  • Aquatint
  • The resin box
  • Heating the resin
  • Handshaking resin
  • Disturbing the dust
  • Multiple layers
  • Tonal biting
  • Box maintenance
  • Sugar lift
  • Making and using
  • The lift
  • Biting
  • Cleaning
  • Open wax grounds
  • Painting into wax
  • Multi-depth
  • Opening the wax further
  • Open varnish
  • Spongeing
  • Painting and lifting
  • Ink transfer
  • The key plate
  • Without a ground
  • 4 Etching (p. 46)
  • Mordants
  • Ferric chloride
  • Nitric acid
  • Biting the plate
  • Timing the etch and observation
  • Soft grounds
  • Testing the depth
  • Serial etch
  • Cleaning
  • 5 The Print (p. 51)
  • Proofing
  • The bevel
  • Filing
  • Scrape and burnish
  • The press
  • Blankets
  • Washing
  • Creases
  • Setting the pressure
  • Placing the blankets
  • Testing the pressure
  • Inks
  • Removing the ink
  • Viscosity
  • Laying out the ink
  • Printing
  • State proof - black ink
  • Using card
  • Applying the ink
  • Wiping
  • Using scrim
  • Tissue wiping
  • Hand wiping
  • Cleaning the bevel
  • Paper
  • Tissue
  • Blotting
  • Printing paper
  • Paper weight
  • Sizes
  • Tearing to size
  • Handling
  • Damping the paper
  • Precautions
  • Damping
  • Care whilst printing
  • At the press
  • Bed preparation
  • Using tissue
  • Laying the plate
  • Holding the paper
  • The blankets
  • Addressing the wheel
  • Removing the print
  • Drying the proof
  • 6 Colour (p. 71)
  • Monochromatic colour printing
  • Earth colours
  • Wiping skills
  • Colour inks
  • Colour and zinc
  • Mixing ink
  • Colour matching
  • Inking
  • Dolly method
  • Using card
  • Wiping
  • Rollers
  • Inking up
  • Laying the ink
  • 7 Multi-Plate Etching and Printing (p. 82)
  • Etching for colour
  • Multi-plate
  • Pressure and paper
  • Paper registration
  • Plate registration
  • Internal registration
  • Plate order
  • Offset colour
  • Additional plates
  • Hand-wiped plate tone
  • Drying
  • 8 Carborundum (p. 98)
  • Using carborundum
  • 9 Photopolymer Plates (p. 107)
  • Cutting polymer plates
  • Positive preparation
  • Exposure
  • Printing
  • 10 Editioning (p. 112)
  • Preparation
  • Getting ready
  • The edition
  • Finishing
  • Conclusion (p. 119)
  • Suppliers (p. 123)
  • Bibliography (p. 126)
  • Index (p. 127)

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