Non-toxic Printmaking
This is your essential guide to less harmful, but equally effective, environmentally friendly printmaking methods.

Traditional printmaking techniques expose the artist and the environment to a multitude of toxic materials. In this book, Mark Graver puts the case for non-toxic printmaking and discusses the replication of traditional techniques with less harmful, but equally effective, environmentally friendly methods.

This book covers engraving, etching with acrylic resists, using drypoint, making aquatints, mezzotints and collagraphs, and using photopolymers as well as combining various printmaking techniques.

Highly illustrated wit the works of artists from around the world, this practical and inspiring book contains everything you need to know about switching to a non-toxic printmaking practice.

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Non-toxic Printmaking
This is your essential guide to less harmful, but equally effective, environmentally friendly printmaking methods.

Traditional printmaking techniques expose the artist and the environment to a multitude of toxic materials. In this book, Mark Graver puts the case for non-toxic printmaking and discusses the replication of traditional techniques with less harmful, but equally effective, environmentally friendly methods.

This book covers engraving, etching with acrylic resists, using drypoint, making aquatints, mezzotints and collagraphs, and using photopolymers as well as combining various printmaking techniques.

Highly illustrated wit the works of artists from around the world, this practical and inspiring book contains everything you need to know about switching to a non-toxic printmaking practice.

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Non-toxic Printmaking

Non-toxic Printmaking

by Mark Graver
Non-toxic Printmaking

Non-toxic Printmaking

by Mark Graver

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Overview

This is your essential guide to less harmful, but equally effective, environmentally friendly printmaking methods.

Traditional printmaking techniques expose the artist and the environment to a multitude of toxic materials. In this book, Mark Graver puts the case for non-toxic printmaking and discusses the replication of traditional techniques with less harmful, but equally effective, environmentally friendly methods.

This book covers engraving, etching with acrylic resists, using drypoint, making aquatints, mezzotints and collagraphs, and using photopolymers as well as combining various printmaking techniques.

Highly illustrated wit the works of artists from around the world, this practical and inspiring book contains everything you need to know about switching to a non-toxic printmaking practice.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789940206
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 01/28/2020
Series: Printmaking Handbooks
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Mark Graver is an English printmaker currently working in New Zealand. He has a master's degree from Camberwell College of Arts and is a frequent contributor to various printmaking journals. He was the winner of the Lessedra World mini print competition 2010.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Why Non-Toxic?

Materials

Metals

1. Acrylic Resist Etching on Copper

2. Acrylic-Resist Hard Grounds

3. Acrylic Soft Grounds

4. Acrylic-Resist Aquatint

5. Wash Grounds, Lift Grounds, White Ground

6. Etching Copper with Ferric Chloride

7. Saline Sulphate Etch

8. Inks, Inking, Paper and Printing

9. Colour, Chine-Coll and Multi-Plate Printing 98

10. Non-Chemical Processes

11. A Survey: Is Printmaking Going Green? By Indrani Gall

12. Conclusion

Appendix 1 – Some Thoughts on Non-Toxic Printmaking

Appendix 2 – Original Prints and Reproductions – A Need for Definition

Featured Artists

Suppliers

Website Resources

Bibliography

Index

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