Showing posts with label zinc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zinc. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Hard ground
The ingredients you need to make a hard ground is:
2 parts (8.5tbsp) lump/egyptian asphaltum
2 parts (5tbsp) beeswax (white is purer but yellow works too)
1 part (3tbsp) rosin
An ingredients list isn't quite enough to stir up a decent hard ground. You need to know how to make it, too. I have never actually tried this and am mainly posting this as a future reminder to myself. There appears to be a decent recipe/method for hard ground in Practical guide to etching and other intaglio printmaking techniques By Manly Banister, starting around page 11.
Do you have any tips?
2 parts (8.5tbsp) lump/egyptian asphaltum
2 parts (5tbsp) beeswax (white is purer but yellow works too)
1 part (3tbsp) rosin
An ingredients list isn't quite enough to stir up a decent hard ground. You need to know how to make it, too. I have never actually tried this and am mainly posting this as a future reminder to myself. There appears to be a decent recipe/method for hard ground in Practical guide to etching and other intaglio printmaking techniques By Manly Banister, starting around page 11.
Do you have any tips?
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