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soft-ground etching [1 record]

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Record 1 2016-05-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastic Arts
DEF

A method of etching that produces prints which have a softness of line and a grainy character suggestive of crayon strokes or of the grainy lines characteristic of a lithograph or a crayon manner print.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts plastiques
CONT

[...] il existe une autre façon de graver à la manière de crayon [...] c'est le vernis mou. Le procédé du vernis mou est le suivant : après avoir été dégraissé, le métal est recouvert de vernis mou.

OBS

Lorsque le vernis est sec [...] on applique sur la planche un papier assez léger et l'on dessine avec un crayon graphite un peu dur. Chaque trait marquera le vernis [...] les marques en seront laissées sur le vernis au moindre appui, augmentant ainsi le caractère d'un dessin au crayon, à l'impression.

Spanish

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