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Etching with zinc plate - five week course
Thu, 14 Jan
|Newcastle Printmakers Workshop
This five week workshop will focus on the basics of zinc plate etching including aquatinting, chine colle and soft ground.


Time & Location
14 Jan 2021, 8:30 am – 11 Feb 2021, 11:30 pm
Newcastle Printmakers Workshop, 27 Popran Rd, Adamstown NSW 2303, Australia
About the Event
This five week workshop will focus on the basics of zinc plate etching and copper sulphate. Students will learn how to prepare plates, use a hard ground to make a line etching, apply an aquatint to develop a range of tones in their prints, use chine colle to add colour and soft ground to add texture.
Dates: Thursdays 14th, 21st and 28th Jan, 4th and 11th Februaruy 2021 8:30am to 11:30am.
Beginners welcome but this is also a chance to explore new techniques.
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.
Materials: Participants need to provide their own zinc plates and…
Tickets
General ticket
This is a ticket for one person for the four week Etching Basics course.
$295.00
Sold OutNPW Member
This is a ticket for one Newcastle Printmakers Workshop member for the five week Etching Basics course.
$260.00
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