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.>

The next installment in A&C Black's excellent Printmaking Handbook range...includes a series of ways to replicate traditional printmaking methods without the use of acids, solvents and petroleum-based materials which can be dangerous to inhale or be in extended contact with.

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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.

Zusammenfassung
A handy guide to non-toxic printmaking

Inhalt

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