Use a small piece of mount board or an store reward card (make sure it is a soft flexible one otherwise you risk scratching your plate) to scrape the excess Use a dauber or a wadded up piece of fabric to dab ink all over the drawn areas of your plate. Squeeze out a little ink onto a piece of glass, perspex It has a tacky but not too oily consistency and the pigmentation is strong. If too dry, your image will appear too pale.Д¬aligo Etching Ink is oil based and water soluble so it is washable in water. If the paper is too wet when printed it will blur the lines of the print. The paper should feel very slightly damp to the This time, remove your paper from the water and blot it on blotting paper or a clean piece of fabric. This helps to draw the ink out of the burred lines of your plate. You want to soak your paper in clean water for about 5 minutes. We are using Somerset Satin White 300gsm. When your plate is finished, you are ready to print! First, soak a piece of printing paper. You may need to hold you plate up to the light away from your drawing to see how it is looking as it can be difficult to see your marks in the transparent With pressing hard or softly to create different marks. Trace your drawing with your tool into the surface of the plate. Use an etching tool (or a pointed tool such as a nail in a piece of dowel).

Place your Drypoint Plastic Printing Plate over your image. We love to use Drypoint Plastic as it is easy to draw into and a drawing can be traced through it! Drypoint plates can be made in copper, zinc or plastic. It requires less specialist equipment and no chemicals or acids. Intaglio printmaking is the opposite of relief printmaking as it is the sunken areas of the plate thatДrypoint is an easy technique to get to grips with and is a great method if you would like to take your drawings into print.

Meaning that the print reveals the drawing. These lines create a burr that holds ink,

NovemStaining Lino to See Your Carving More EasilyДrypoint is an intaglio printmaking method that involves scratching an image into a plate with a pointed tool.

NovemPrinting a Linocut with a Relief Printing Press.

Squeegees, Scoop Coaters and Hinge Clamps.

Intaglio art definition