Hard Ground Etching
Friday 18 October 2024
10am – 5pm
An intensive 6-hour workshop with Alessia De Bortoli
Etching is among the most famous and fascinating indirect engraving techniques, created with the use of mordants to generate engraved signs. This workshop aims to present this ancient process in a contemporary and sustainable perspective.
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The Workshop
The sustainable approach, based on continuous research on more eco-friendly and less toxic materials, enables us to complete hardground etching and prints without using solvents, acids, and other products that harm the environment.
Our instructor will guide students to process the copper plates, from the polishing and bevelling to the application of the BIG paint, and finally, the completion of the hardground etch and print. Students will complete the etching with a blue stone, utilise a mordant classified as less toxic, and complete a small print on Fabriano printing paper with washable soy-based inks.
Sustainable Printmaking
Series of workshops on printmaking techniques with a sustainable approach and materials An overview of the most recent and innovative research on engraving and printing processes without the use of chemical solvents and toxic materials and with water-washable inks.
This series of workshops, which can be attended individually, is aimed at engravers who wish to make their practice more sustainable and healthy, but also at those who want to approach intaglio engraving with particular attention to health and the environment.
Alessia De Bortoli
After graduation in Printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, she trained in Sustainable Printmaking at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica with Roberta Feoli De Lucia. She obtained the Green Printmaking Certificate from Zea Mays Printmaking, Massachusetts, USA.
