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Etching Basics with zinc plate - 29 November 2020
Sun, 29 Nov
|Newcastle Printmakers Workshop
Learn how to create your own rich zinc plate etchings in this one day workshop using copper sulphate.


Time & Location
29 Nov 2020, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Newcastle Printmakers Workshop, 27 Popran Rd, Adamstown NSW 2303, Australia
About the Event
In this one day workshop using zinc plates and copper sulphate participants will learn how to prepare their plates, apply a soft ground and use chine colle to add colour. By the end of the course everyone should have created a zinc plate with an image and have printed it intaglio ready for framing.
Previous experience is not required.
Etching is a rich medium where an image is scratched, drawn or painted onto a metal plate and the image etched into the plate. A range of marks can be created and, after etching, ink is applied to the plate. A print is created by placing dampened paper onto the plate and passing both through a press.
Most materials will be provided (inks, ground, tarlaton) but you will need to bring a zinc plate and some printing paper. Also bring some ideas for your print, enclosed shoes, apron, own drink and…
Tickets
General ticket
This is a ticket for one person for the one day Etching Basics course.
$145.00
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